Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/436
Authors: Scarpetta, S.* 
Giudicepietro, F.* 
Ezin, E. C.* 
Petrosino, S.* 
Del Pezzo, E.* 
Martini, M.* 
Marinaro, M.* 
Title: Automatic Classification of Seismic Signals at Mt. Vesuvius Volcano, Italy, Using Neural Networks
Journal: Bulletin of the seismological society of America 
Series/Report no.: 95, 1
Issue Date: 2005
DOI: 10.1785/0120030075
URL: http://bssa.geoscienceworld.org/
Keywords: Seismic signals
Vesuvius
Automatic classification
Volcano-tectonic earthquakes
Subject Classification04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.08. Volcano seismology 
Abstract: We present a new strategy for reliable automatic classification of local seismic signals and volcano-tectonic earthquakes (VT). The method is based on a supervised neural network in which a new approach for feature extraction from short period seismic signals is applied. To reduce the number of records required for the analysis we set up a specialized neural classifier, able to distinguish two classes of signals, for each of the selected stations. The neural network architecture is a multilayer perceptron (MLP) with a single hidden layer. Spectral features of the signals and the parameterized attributes of their waveform have been used as input for this network. Feature extraction is done by using both the linear predictor coding technique for computing the spectrograms, and a function of the amplitude for characterizing waveforms. Compared to strategies that use only spectral signatures, the inclusion of properly normalized amplitude features improves the performance of the classifiers, and allows the network to better generalize. To train the MLP network we compared the performance of the quasi-Newton algorithm with the scaled conjugate gradient method. We found that the scaled conjugate gradient approach is the faster of the two, with quite equally good performance. Our method was tested on a dataset recorded by four selected stations of the Mt. Vesuvius monitoring network, for the discrimination of low magnitude VT events and transient signals caused by either artificial (quarry blasts, underwater explosions) and natural (thunder) sources. In this test application we obtained 100% correct classification for one of the possible pairs of signal types (VT versus quarry blasts). Because this method was developed independently of this particular discrimination task, it can be applied to a broad range of other applications.
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