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space-frequency domain — Oil & Gas Glossary

A display, also known as the f-k domain, of seismic data by wavenumber versus frequency rather than the intuitive display of location versus time for convenience during seismic processing. Working in the space-frequency domain provides the seismic processor with an alternative measure of the content of seismic data in which operations such as filtering of certain unwanted events can be

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