Filtering Data in JRG
With some data sets
you may need to apply a bandpass filter to your traces to mitigate source-generated
noise.
- Choose In Place from the Methods menu to deselect it. Each filter attempt
will then come up in a new window, which you can close if you don't like it.
Go back to the source window to try again.
- Select bpfilter from the On Each Vector sub-menu of the Methods menu.
Leave the Pad factor at 2, and check that the Dt field shows the right time sampling.
- Enter your filter frequencies, in hertz, into the last four fields of
the dialog box. Try to have a 20% taper on each side of the bandpass.
For example, entering Low, Down=40; Low, Up=50; High, Up=100, and High, Down=120
will cut below 40 Hz and above 120 Hz,
and preserve frequencies in the 50-100 Hz band.
- Press the bpfilter button.
- If filtering has removed much amplitude from your plot, select Clip at 3*RMS from the
Edit menu.
- Try Animate again to check the result on all the records. Or drag the Plane Index slider
back and forth.
- If you are happy with the filtered data for picking, you can close the un-filtered window.