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ThisashorttutorialpresentingastepbystepH/Vmethodprocedure,usingsomeofthemainparameters.
ForamoredetaileddescriptionoftheToolboxesparametersseeH/VandSpectrumToolboxes

Contents
1Introduction
2Gettingready
3Windowselection
4Processingparameters
5Outputparameters
6Dataprocessing
7Results
7.1Signaldisplay
7.2H/Vcurve
8ChangingH/Vgraphicsappearance
9Savingresults
9.1Imageformats
9.2Numericalvalues
10References

Introduction
The technique originally proposed by Nogoshi and Igarashi [1], and widespread by Nakamura [2],
consists in estimating the ratio between the Fourier amplitude spectra of the horizontal (H) to vertical
(V)componentsofambientnoisevibrationsrecordedatonesinglestation.
ThistoolisusedtoobtainHorizontaltoVertical(H/V)spectralratiosfromanytypeofvibrationsignals
(ambient vibrations, earthquake). The example used for explanations is an ambient vibration
recording.
AllparametersnecessarytoprocesssignaldataaresetupintheToolbox.
ForH/Vprocessing,thedatashouldhave:
3signals:NorthSouth,EastWestandVertical
acommonname(seeheretomodifythenameofthecomponent)
enoughtcommonsamplesintimetobeprocessed.
So,theuserhastobecarefulwhenthe3signalsofasamerecordingareloadedfrom3differentfiles.
Insomeearlyversions(before20100601),failingtofulfillthoseconditionsmayleadtoresultsbased
on silently stacked signals, for instance, when signal Name is no set in file header (e.g. column text
fileswithoutheader).
Asfortheothertools,thedatamaybeprocessed:
fromagraphicviewer,toverifythewindowingandtodisplaytheresults
fromatable.Inthiscase,Geopsywilldisplayonlytheresultingcurves.
The reference document for the H/V processing is the SESAME user guidelines, which is strongly

H/Vcurveexample

recommendedforfurtherreading[3].

Gettingready
Downloadthecompressedsignalfile.
Loadandviewthesedownloadedsignals.
SelectH/VspectralratioinmenuTools(drag&dropalternativewaytostartatool)

Windowselection
MakesurethattheH/VToolboxisdisplayingtheTimetab,andthatparametersaresetasintheexamplewindow.
TheAntitriggeringonrawsignalbuttonhastobechecked.
Toensurethatparametersarealright,itispossibletodownloadthetutorialparameterfileandtoload the toolbox
parameters.

GeneralsubtabinTimetaboftheH/Vtoolbox

ClickontheRawsignalsubtabinTimetab,tocheckthattheantitriggerparameters,usedtogetridofsaturatedsignal,areasintheexamplewindow.

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RawsignalsubtabinTimetabofthetoolboxwith
theantitriggerparameters

ClickontheSelectbuttonandselectAuto.

Selectpopup
menu

ThenumberofselectedwindowsappearsatthebottomrightcorneroftheTimetab.
Thenumberofwindowsshouldbeasintheexample.

Numberofselectedwindows

SelectedwindowsshouldappearasgreenrectanglesontheSignalviewer.
Noticethattheselectedwindowsarecommonforthethreecomponents.

Moreoptionsforselectingwindowsareavailable.

Selectedwindows

Processingparameters
ClickontheProcessingtab,andmakesurethatparametersareasintheexamplewindow.

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Processingtabintoolbox

Outputparameters
MakesurethatyouareintheOutputtab,andthatparametersareasintheexamplewindow.

Outputtabintoolbox

Dataprocessing
ClickontheStartbuttonatthebottomofthetoolbox,whatevertabisdisplayed.

Ifnowindowselectionhasbeenperformed,apopupwindowappears.
SimplyclickontheYesbuttonandprocessingwillfollowitsway.

Noselectedwindowspopupwindow

Results
Signaldisplay
Selected windows are colored, matching colours in he H/V graphics, i.e. colour of individual H/V curves have the
samecolourasthesignalwindows.

Signaldisplaywithcoloredwindowsusedfor
computingH/Vmatchingwithcoloursofindividual
H/Vcurvespresentedbelow

H/Vcurve
TheblackcurverepresentsH/VgeometricallyaveragedoverallcoloredindividualH/Vcurves.ThetwodashedlinesrepresenttheH/Vstandarddeviation.
Thegreyarearepresenttheaveragedpeakfrequencyanditsstandarddeviation.Thefrequencyvalueisatthelimitbetweenthedarkgreyandlightgreyareas.

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H/Vcurve

Use the cursor to get information on the H/V peak. By sliding the cursor onto the H/V graph or title, the following
information appear in a yellow frame: data file name, exact value of the H/V peak frequency and its standard
deviation,exactvalueoftheH/Vpeakamplitudeanditsstandarddeviation,andinterpretationcategory.

Peakfrequencyandstandarddeviationvalues

ChangingH/Vgraphicsappearance
ItispossibletochangetheappearanceoftheH/Vgraphicsattheuser'swill,usingamakeup.
Asanexample,firstdownloadthecompressedmakeupfile.
ThenrightclickinthelefthandmarginoftheH/Vgraphics.
SelectRestoremakeupinthepopupmenuandthenselectHV_Makeup.mkupfile.

Popupmenutorestoreamakeup

TheappearanceoftheH/Vgraphicsisnowattheuser'staste.

NewH/Vgraphicsappearancechangeafter
applyingamakeup

Savingresults
TheH/Vgraphicsmaybesavedinvariousimageformats.

Imageformats
RightclickinthelefthandmarginoftheH/Vgraphics.
InthepopupmenuchooseExportimage.

PopupmenutosaveH/Vgraphics

Chooseadestinationfolder,theimageformat,andafilename.

DirectoryweretosaveH/Vgraphics

Numericalvalues
Numericalvaluescanbesavedin.hvtextfiles.

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Selectallstationstosave
GotomenuTools/Saveresults
ItworksthesamewayastheOutputsectionofthetoolbox.

References
1. NogoshiM.andIgarashiT.(1971)Ontheamplitudecharacteristicsofmicrotremor(part2)(inJapanesewithenglishabstract).JournalofseismologicalSocietyof
Japan,24,2640.
2. Nakamura, Y. (1989) A method for dynamic characteristics estimation of subsurface using microtremor on the ground surface. Quaterly Report of the Railway
TechnicalResearchInstitue30(1),2530.
3. Guidelines for the implementation of the H/V spectral ratio technique on ambient vibrations measurements, processing and interpretation, [1] (http://SESAME
FP5.obs.ujfgrenoble.fr),62pages,April2005
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