A comparison of select trigger algorithms for automated global seismic phase and event detection

@article{Withers1998ACO,
  title={A comparison of select trigger algorithms for automated global seismic phase and event detection},
  author={Mitch Withers and Richard C. Aster and Christopher John Young and Judy I. Beiriger and Mark Harris and Susan Moore and Julian R. Trujillo},
  journal={Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America},
  year={1998}
}
Digital algorithms for robust detection of phase arrivals in the presence of stationary and nonstationary noise have a long history in seismology and have been exploited primarily to reduce the amount of data recorded by data logging systems to manageable levels. In the present era of inexpensive digital storage, however, such algorithms are increasingly being used to flag signal segments in continuously recorded digital data streams for subsequent processing by automatic and/or expert… Expand
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