Spectral and Multiscale Signal-to-Noise Thresholding of Spherical Vector Fields.

Autor: W. Freeden, T. Maier
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Zdroj: Computational Geosciences; Sep2003, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p215-250, 36p
Abstrakt: The basic concepts of spectral and multiscale selective reconstruction of (geophysically relevant) vector fields on the sphere from error-affected data is outlined in detail. The reconstruction mechanism is formulated under the assumption that spectral as well as multiscale approximation is well-representable in terms of only a certain number of expansion coefficients at the various resolution levels. It is shown that spectral denoising by means of orthogonal expansions in terms of vector spherical harmonics reflects global a priori information of the noise (e.g., in form of a covariance tensor field), whereas multiscale signal-to-noise thresholding can be performed under locally dependent noise information within a multiresolution analysis in terms of spherical vector wavelets. An application of the multiscale formalism to Earth's magnetic field determination is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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