Open Access Published: 01 February 2016 Applications of Savitzky-Golay Filter for Seismic Random Noise Reduction Yanping Liu¹, Bo Dang¹, Yue Li², Hongbo Lin² & Haitao Ma² Acta Geophysica volume 64, pages 101–124 (2016)Cite this article 909 Accesses 33 Citations Metrics details Abstract This article utilizes Savitzky–Golay (SG) filter to eliminate seismic random noise. This is a novel method for seismic random noise reduction in which SG filter adopts piecewise weighted polynomial via leastsquares estimation. Therefore, effective smoothing is achieved in extracting the original signal from noise environment while retaining the shape of the signal as close as possible to the original one. Although there are lots of classical methods such as Wiener filtering and wavelet denoising applied to eliminate seismic random noise, the SG filter outperforms them in approximating the true signal. 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