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GEOPHYSICS, VOL. 82, NO. 3 (MAY-JUNE 2017); P. F9–F14, 4 FIGS.

10.1190/GEO2016-0099.1
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The monogenic signal of potential-field data: A Python implementation

Marlon C. Hidalgo-Gato1 and Valéria C. F. Barbosa2

One of the biggest problems of edge detection filters based on


ABSTRACT derivatives, and especially the ones that use vertical derivatives, is
the enhancement of the noise content. Because of this, Hassan and
We have developed codes to calculate the local amplitude, Yalamanchili (2013) propose the monogenic signal attributes of
the local phase, and the local orientation of the nonscale and magnetic data as a set of filters based on the Riesz transform that
the Poisson’s scale-space monogenic signals of potential-field do not use only the derivative of the data. The monogenic signal is
data in version 1.0 of the open-source program Monogenic. an image-processing tool proposed by Felsberg and Sommer (2001)
The monogenic vector of a generic function is calculated in that can be applied to any kind of image data. In contrast with the
the wavenumber domain and then transformed back into the classic edge detection filters used in geophysical applications, the
space domain to find the monogenic signal attributes. We monogenic signal is applied directly to the data and does not require
compare the use of the nonscale monogenic signal with the derivatives. Cooper (2014) proposes the zero-order analytical sig-
Poisson’s scale-space monogenic signal in magnetic data. nal, which in practice is the same as the amplitude of the monogenic
This comparison shows that the latter can produce better re- signal proposed by Hassan and Yalamanchili (2013). Following
sults as an edge detection filter. The implementation of the Felsberg and Sommer’s (2001) approach, Hidalgo-Gato and Bar-
monogenic signal can be used to enhance other geophysical bosa (2015) propose the Poisson’s scale-space monogenic signal
data, such as seismic, ground-penetrating radar, gravity, of a potential-field function as an edge detection filter. In this paper,
multiple-component gravity gradiometry, and magnetic gra- we refer to the monogenic signal attributes presented by Hassan and
dient data. Yalamanchili (2013) as the nonscale monogenic signal. In what fol-
lows, we refer to the scale-space monogenic signal presented by
Hidalgo-Gato and Barbosa (2015) as the Poisson’s scale-space
monogenic signal.
The nonscale and the Poisson’s scale-space monogenic signals
INTRODUCTION are 3D vectors composed of the data and its first-order Riesz trans-
form. The nonscale monogenic signal uses the original data,
Most edge detection filters in geophysical applications are based whereas the Poisson’s scale-space monogenic signal uses the Pois-
on the derivative of the field. One of the most popular filters is son’s scale-space representation of the original potential-field data.
the 2D analytical signal proposed by Nabighian (1972). The 2D Hidalgo-Gato and Barbosa (2015) show that the Poisson’s scale-
analytical signal is the amplitude of the vector composed by the space monogenic signal has better performance as an edge detection
horizontal and vertical derivatives of the data. Nabighian (1984) in- filter than the nonscale monogenic signal. The latter can produce
troduces the 3D analytical signal, and Roest et al. (1992) propose smoothed or misshapen contacts of the bodies.
the total gradient. The total gradient is the amplitude of the vector In this paper, we present the Python 2.7/3.5 program Monogenic
composed by the x- and y-horizontal derivatives and the vertical to calculate the nonscale and the Poisson’s scale-space monogenic
derivative of the data. Gradient amplitude-based filters fail to enhance signal attributes based on the definitions introduced by Hidalgo-
strong and weak anomalies simultaneously. On the other hand, the tilt Gato and Barbosa (2015). In addition, we make available the Python
angle (Miller and Singh, 1994) enhances weak and strong anomalies script “synthetic.py” and the data “data.dat” to run our synthetic test
produced by shallow- and deep-seated sources equally well. example.

Peer-reviewed code related to this article can be found at http://software.seg.org/2017/0002.


Manuscript received by the Editor 25 February 2016; revised manuscript received 8 October 2016; published online 6 March 2017; corrected version pub-
lished online 27 April 2017.
1
Observatório Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and CGG Multi-Physics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected].
2
Observatório Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected].
© 2017 Society of Exploration Geophysicists. All rights reserved.

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2 3
BUILDING THE POISSON’S SCALE-SPACE F
MONOGENIC VECTOR u ffi 7
6 i pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi F7
MNS ðu; vÞ ¼ 6
4 uv2 þv2 5: (7)
The Poisson’s scale-space monogenic signal of a potential-field p ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi
i 2 2F ffi
u þv
function fðx; yÞ, which is measured in a constant height (z ¼
constant), is a 3D vector given by
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3 2 INSIDE THE MONOGENIC SIGNAL


f bp
mðx; yÞ ¼ 4 rxp 5; (1) In equations 5 and 7, iu and iv are the filters that transform a
ryp function fðx; yÞ measured on a horizontal surface into first-order
derivatives with respect to the x- and y-directions, respectively. As
where f bp ≡ f bp ðx; yÞ is the Poisson’s scale-space representation of pointed out by Hidalgo-Gato and Barbosa (2015), these terms en-
the original function fðx; yÞ filtered by a band-pass filter (Felsberg pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi if fðx; yÞ is a
hance the high-wavenumber contents. Nonetheless,
and Sommer, 2001) and rxp ≡ rxp ðx; yÞ and ryp ≡ ryp ðx; yÞ are, re- potential-field function, then the filter 1∕ u2 þ v2 transforms this
spectively, the x- and y-components of the first-order Riesz transform function into its first-order vertical integration, which attenuates the
of f bp . high-wavenumbers amplitudes. In addition, note that the filter p in
From the Poisson’s scale-space monogenic vector (equation 1), equation 6 represents a band-pass filter given by the difference be-
we can define the following quantities in the 3D space: (1) the local tween two upward-continuation filters at different observation lev-
amplitude: els controlled by the parameters hc and hf . The combination of a
qffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi band-pass filter and the vertical integral transformation of a poten-
Aðx; yÞ ¼ r2xp þ r2yp þ f bp 2 ; (2) tial-field function makes the local amplitude, the local phase, and
the local orientation in the Poisson’s scale-space monogenic signal
less sensitive to noise than regular filters such as the total gradient
(2) the local phase: (Roest et al., 1992) and tilt angle (Miller and Singh, 1994).
0qffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1 We understand that a band-pass filter may attenuate and/or com-
B rxp þ ryp C
2 2
−1
pletely remove some signal wavelengths. The choice of the param-
φðx; yÞ ¼ tan @ A; (3) eters hc and hf (equation 6) is done by trial and error to band pass
f bp
the wavelengths related to the noise contents. The best values of
these parameters will depend on the grid dimensions and the noise
and (3) the local orientation: level of the data. In practice, we verified that a good initial approxi-
  mation for these parameters can be given by fixing hc close to the
ryp grid spacing and setting hf to approximately 10% less than hc .
θðx; yÞ ¼ tan−1 (4)
rxp As compared with the Poisson’s scale-space monogenic signal,
the nonscale monogenic signal (equation 7) is easier to use because
it does not require tuning of the Poisson’s parameters (hc and hf in
Taking the Fourier transform of the Poisson’s scale-space equation 6) to band-pass filter the data. In fact, the nonscale mono-
monogenic vector (equation 1), Hidalgo-Gato and Barbosa (2015) genic signal (equation 7) uses the original data only. However, in
show that the Fourier transform of each components is a 3D vector enhancing the weak magnetic responses of deep sources, the non-
given by scale monogenic signal can distort the boundaries of the sources. In
2 3 this paper, we present the open-source codes of both functions:
p·F (1) the nonscale monogenic signal and (2) the Poisson’s scale-space
6 i pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi
u ffi
· p · F7
Mðu; vÞ ¼ 6 7; monogenic signal in the wavenumber domain.
4 uv2 þv2 5 (5)
p ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi
i 2 2·p·F ffi
u þv COMPUTATIONAL DETAILS

where u and v are the wavenumbers in the x- and y-directions, re- We have implemented codes to calculate the local amplitude, the
spectively, F ≡ Fðu; vÞpisffiffiffiffiffiffithe Fourier transform of the potential-
local phase, and the local orientation of the nonscale monogenic sig-
field data fðx; yÞ, i ¼ −1 and p ≡ pðhc ; hf ; u; vÞ is a band-pass nal and the Poisson’s scale-space monogenic signal in version 1.0 of
filter that maps the original function into the Poisson’s scale-space the open-source program Monogenic. The code was implemented in
representation, being defined as Python 2.7/3.5 language and is executed using Anaconda2 64 bit.
 pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi 
The Anaconda Python is a freely available package that includes the
NumPy library, which is necessary to run the code. However, you
p¼ e−2πhf u2 þv2 − e−2πhc u2 þv2 ; (6) may run the code in any other Python 2.7 interpreter as long as the
NumPy library is installed. Our code is freely available online (http://
where hc > hf > 0 are the parameters related to the Poisson’s software.seg.org/2017/0002) under the Berkeley Software Distribu-
scale-space representation (Felsberg and Sommer, 2001). tion three-clause open-source license. Alternatively, all accompany-
Alternatively, the nonscale monogenic signal can be constructed ing material is available in an online repository (Hidalgo-Gato and
from equation 5 by setting p ¼ 1. In this particular case, the three Barbosa, 2017).
components of the monogenic signal will be given by the original In the program Monogenic v 1.0, we present two functions:
data function, and its first-order Riesz transform; i.e., (1) nss_monogenic_signal (x, y, data, pad_pt, and pad_mode) and
Monogenic signal: A Python implementation F11

(2) pss_monogenic_signal (x, y, data, hc, hf, pad_pt, and pad_mode), The linear ramp mode (linear_ramp) pads the data with a linear
where x and y are the 2D arrays containing the north–south and east– ramp between zero and the edge values. This padding function will
west coordinates, the data are a 2D array with the potential-field data to always fill the edges of the padded array with zeros. The edge mode
be transformed, hc and hf are the scalars required by the Poisson’s (edge) fills all the padded area with the values of the closer edges,
scale-space monogenic signal (equation 6), and pad_pt and pad_mode whereas the mean values mode (mean) pads with the mean values of
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are the parameters used to set the data padding. The choice of padding each rows and columns.
parameters will be discussed later. If the Poisson’s scale-space param- The number of padding points (pad_pt) to be added to the origi-
eters are passed to the pss_monogenic_singal function as None nal data array in all directions is an integer number. For example, for
(hc ¼ hf ¼ None), then the monogenic code will automatically cal- an original data array of 2 × 2 points and a pad_pt = 2, the extended
culate default values following our recommendations. Both functions data array will have dimensions of 6 × 6 given by
return the local amplitude, the local phase, and the local orientation of
a 2D array. Equations 2–4 express these attributes in the case of the  
Poisson’s scale-space monogenic vector. 4 9
¼> padding with line arramp
In our algorithm, we assume a regular grid at a constant height 7 6
observation level (z = constant). For a computational convenience, 2 3
0 0 0 0 0 0
our algorithm calculates the three components of the monogenic
6 7
signal vector in the wavenumber domain and then transforms it back 60 1 2 4 2 07
6 7
into the space domain. Finally, we calculate the local amplitude, 60 2 4 9 4 07
6 7
local phase, and the local orientation of the monogenic signal. ¼> 6 7: (8)
60 4 7 6 3 07
The algorithm of both functions (nss_monogenic_signal and 6 7
pss_monogenic_signal) inside the file “monogenic.py” is summa- 6 7
40 2 4 3 2 05
rized in the following pseudocode:
0 0 0 0 0 0
Function monogenic_signal
(
x ¼ north coordinates Note that, in this example, we padded the array with a linear ramp
Input← y ¼ east coordinates mode; thus, the values are decreasing to zero without changing the
data ¼ input data center of the original data array. Big data expansions will increase
− pad the data the computation time and may cause overflow. We performed some
− calculate the fast Fourier transform synthetic tests using the three padding modes with different pad_pt
− calculate the Fourier wavenumbers values. Our simulations show that a small number of padding points
− calculate the x- and y-components of the first-order is sufficient to avoid edge effects without affecting the computer
Riesz transform memory and processing time.
− transform the data and the Riesz components back into
the space domain
− remove the pad
− calculate the local amplitude, local phase, and local ori-
entation.8
< local amplitude
Output → local phase
:
local orientation

Note that the two components of the first-order Riesz transform in


the wavenumber domain (equations 5 and 7) have a singularity point
ð0; 0Þ. For this reason, we zero out the DC frequency of the Riesz
components of the monogenic signal vector. On the other hand, equa-
tion 6 is also zero at point ð0; 0Þ. This is the same as removing a
constant averaged value of the data, and it makes the scale-space
monogenic signal attributes independent of the DC component.
The fast Fourier transform (FFT) package inside the NumPy library
was used to transform the data in the wavenumber domain and cal-
culate the Fourier wavenumbers.

Data padding
To avoid edge effects using the fast Fourier transform, we extend
the 2D data array. We have included a padding function to expand Figure 1. Synthetic test. Noise-corrupted total-field anomaly pro-
the data using three different modes: linear ramp, edge, and mean duced by the geologic model of Figure 2. The horizontal dashed lines
are the projection in the horizontal plane of the hinge line (black),
values. The pad is included in both monogenic signal functions, and continental oceanic boundary (white), and the edges of the igneous
the user can specify the mode (mode) and the number of points intrusion and the dike (gray). The vertical dashed lines are the transfer
(pad_pt) to expand the 2D array. zones between displacements in the basement.
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After padding the data, we transform it to the wavenumber do- bodies were magnetized with an inclination of −10° and a declina-
main and calculate the Riesz components. Each Riesz component tion of −20°. We assume that there is no magnetization above the
and the data in the Poisson’s scale-space are then transformed back basement. The edges of the geologic structures were extrapolated
into the space domain. Finally, we remove the pad restoring the data constantly to avoid strong magnetic anomalies near the edges.
array to its original size before calculating the monogenic signal By using the implementation of Uieda et al. (2013), we calculate
attributes.
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the total-field anomaly produced by the geologic model shown in


Figure 2 at −100 m height on a regular grid of 200 × 200 observa-
tion points in the north–south and east−west directions leading to
SYNTHETIC MODEL APPLICATION grid spacing of 500 m along both directions. The magnetic anomaly
Figure 1 shows the computed noise-corrupted total-field anomaly was then corrupted with pseudorandom zero-mean Gaussian noise
produced by a simulated passive margin basin. The 3D synthetic with a standard deviation of 2.5 nT.
model (Figure 2) illustrates a crustal thinning geologic set. It is pos- The x-, y-, and z-coordinates (in meters) and the noise-corrupted
sible to identify some geologic features, such as the hinge line total-field anomaly (in nT) were exported to an ASCII file named
(dashed black line), the continental oceanic boundary (COB) (white data.dat. The Python script synthetic.py that accompanies this paper
dashed line), an igneous intrusion in the middle of the oceanic crust has the following structure: (1) open the data file, (2) calculate the
(dashed red lines), and a dike cutting the shallow basement in the monogenic signal attributes, and (3) plot the maps. In addition to the
continental crust (dashed gray line). The top of the dike is located at NumPy library, the Matplotlib is also required to run the script syn-
a 1500 m depth from the top of the basement. thetic.py. In addition, we padded the original data using the linear
The magnetic basement is uniformly magnetized by induction ramp mode adding 10 points (pad_pt) in all directions before com-
with an intensity of 1.5 A∕m in continental crust and 2.5 A∕m puting the fast Fourier transform. We tested all three pad modes
in oceanic crust. The igneous intrusion and the dike are also mag- implemented and concluded that all of them work well. In our tests,
netized by induction with an intensity of 2.8 A∕m. All the geologic we use only 10 padding points that correspond to 5% of the data
points in one direction of the grid.
Figures 3a–3c and 4a–4c show the local am-
plitude, the local phase, and the local orientation
of, respectively, the nonscale and the Poisson’s
scale-space monogenic signals applied to the to-
tal-field anomaly (Figure 1). To calculate the
Poisson’s scale-space monogenic signal, we used
hc ¼ 500 m and hf ¼ 450 m. Note that we used
hc close to the input grid spacing and hf 10%
less than hc as recommended before. The hori-
zontal dashed lines are the projection in the hori-
zontal plane of the hinge line (in black), COB (in
white), the edges of the igneous intrusion (in
red), and the dike (in gray). The dashed vertical
lines are the transfer zones between displace-
ments in the basement.
Our synthetic test simulates three different
Figure 2. Perspective view of the simulated passive margin model. The dashed lines are types of anomalies (Figure 1). The igneous intru-
the hinge line (black) and the continental oceanic boundary (white). sion and the dike clearly produce, respectively,

Figure 3. Enhancements of the total-field anomaly of Figure 1 using the (a) local amplitude, (b) the local phase, and (c) the local orientation of
the nonscale monogenic signal. The horizontal dashed lines are the projection in the horizontal plane of the hinge line (black), continental
oceanic boundary (white), and the edges of the igneous intrusion (red) and the dike (gray). The vertical dashed thin lines are the transfer zones
between displacements in the basement.
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Figure 4. Enhancements of the total-field anomaly of Figure 1 using the (a) local amplitude, (b) the local phase, and (c) the local orientation in
the Poisson’s scale-space monogenic signal. The horizontal dashed lines are the projection in the horizontal plane of the hinge line (black),
continental oceanic boundary (white), and the edges of the igneous intrusion (red) and the dike (gray). The vertical dashed thin lines are the
transfer zones between displacements in the basement.

3D and 2D magnetic anomalies. On the other hand, the hinge line requires band-pass filtering the data, whereas the nonscale mono-
and the COB produce signals that can be locally approximated by genic signal requires only the original data set. However, the Pois-
2D magnetic anomalies. son’s scale-space monogenic signal yields a sharper image of
Note that neither the nonscale (Figure 3) nor the Poisson’s scale- boundaries of the geologic bodies than the nonscale monogenic sig-
space monogenic signal (Figure 4) is able to enhance the edges of the nal. We demonstrated the use of the monogenic signal by applying it
igneous intrusion because the magnetization vector is not vertical and to synthetic magnetic data. The Python script synthetic.py contains
the intrusion produces a 3D magnetic anomaly. On the other hand, the algorithm to run our synthetic example. This example was run
the 2D anomaly produced by the dike is very well-enhanced using the using specific Poisson’s scale-space parameters. However, users
monogenic signal attributes even in the case of a nonvertical mag- can try different Poisson’s scale-space parameters for the same syn-
netization vector. These results are expected because, as shown by thetic model. Finally, we stress that the application of the nonscale
Hidalgo-Gato and Barbosa (2015), the enhancement of 2D magnetic and the Poisson’s scale-space monogenic signals to enhance other
anomalies with the monogenic signal does not require a vertical mag- geophysical data (e.g., seismic, ground-penetrating radar, gravity,
netization vector. Rather, in case of 3D magnetic anomalies the mag- multiple-component gravity gradiometry, and magnetic gradient
netization vector must be vertical to enhance the true boundaries of data) has no methodological obstacles.
the source by using the monogenic signal.
Taking into account these results, one might think that the mono-
genic signal of a nonvertical magnetization source can only be used to ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
enhance 2D magnetic anomalies. However, we note that even locally
We thank associate editor J. Dellinger, reviewers L. Uieda, T. Irons,
2D magnetic anomalies such as the hinge line and the COB high-
and an anonymous reviewer for their criticisms and suggestions that
lighted in Figures 1 and 2 can be enhanced using the monogenic sig-
helped to improve the first version of the code. We acknowledge the
nal attributes in the presence of nonvertical magnetization.
open-source Python tool kit for geophysical modeling and inversion
The main difference between the nonscale and the Poisson’s
(Uieda et al., 2013) called Fatiando a Terra (Portuguese for Slicing the
scale-space monogenic signal is that the amplitude and phase of the
Earth). V. C. F. Barbosa was supported in this research by a fellowship
latter produces sharper contacts, as shown in Figures 3 and 4. The
(grant no. 307135/2014-4) from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvi-
most striking feature of the local phase in the Poisson’s scale-space
mento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Brazil. Additional support
monogenic signal (Figure 4b) is that it enhances the edges of the
for V. C. F. Barbosa is provided by Brazilian research agency FA-
dike, the hinge line, and the COB better than the local phase in the
PERJ (grant no. E-26/203.091/2016).
nonscale monogenic signal (Figure 3b).
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