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AGC

A system to control the gain, or the increase in the amplitude of an electrical signal from the original input to the amplified output, automatically. AGC is commonly used in seismicprocessing to improve visibility of late-arriving events in which attenuation or wavefrontdivergence has caused amplitude decay.

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