NoiseCut is a Python package for denoising seismic records and specializes in denoising Ocean Bottom Seismometer (OBS) data. It effectively separates long-lasting narrowband signals from broadband transients using harmonic-percussive separation algorithms (Zali et al., 2021 & Zali et al., 2023). The advantage of NoiseCut is that it preserves the earthquake signal with its entire frequency and amplitude after denoising.

Paper: https://se.copernicus.org/articles/14/181/2023/se-14-181-2023.pdf

Paper: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/article/92/6/3668/606262/Volcanic-Tremor-Extraction-and-Earthquake

After installing the package to denoise a signal, you can use the following code. Outputs are the denoised signal and a figure showing the spectrogram of the input signal, the separated noise, and the denoised signal in the frequency range of [0-1] Hz.

import noisecut
import obspy

st = obspy.read('file_name')
hps_trace, spectrograms = noisecut.noisecut(st[0], ret_spectrograms=True)
noisecut.plot_noisecut_spectrograms(*spectrograms)

You can clone the public repository:

git clone https://github.com/ZahraZali/NoiseCut

Once you have a copy of the source, you can cd to NoiseCut directory and install it with:

python setup.py install

You need the Numpy version <= 1.21.

NoiseCut is licenced under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPLv3).

• Developer: Zahra Zali, [email protected]