Short Note About Geophysical Data Analysis

Abstract

The processing of geophysical data generally involves improvement of the signal, by filtering out induced noise, and removal of artefacts created during data collection, which could otherwise be interpreted as a hidden structure of forensic interest. As will underline in the book—for a broad understanding—the analysis of geophysical data and its interpretation require a good level of knowledge of basic mathematics. For this reason, this chapter will provide some basic concepts that could help in geophysical data analysis. The here used approach is an attempt to enables readers to approach to the data analysis without going into the intricacies of mathematics. However, it is important to underline that the success of data processing largely depends on the quality of the acquired data. If the quality of acquired data is very low, processing might not be able to improve it sufficiently for the interpretation and their use to help the investigators. Unsatisfactory quality of raw data implies to consider the repetition of the survey.