Experimental Study of Extracting Weak Infrared Signals of Rock Induced by Cyclic Loading under the Strong Interference Background

Abstract

To understand the possibility of monitoring the crustal stress and tectonic activities via satellite remote sensing technology, an experimental study focused on the thermal infrared variation was performed for cyclic loaded rock in the outdoor condition with two types of strong interference background. The stress-induced infrared radiation was extracted using wavelet analysis. The results showed that due to the significant effect of the ambient temperature, the weak stress-induced infrared signal was indistinguishable from the original infrared radiation. However, after wavelet decomposition, the infrared radiation concurrent with the change in stress became clear, and the correlation coefficient with the stress increased significantly with the value of 0.91 after decomposition. Additionally, the amplitude of the extracted stress-induced infrared signal was close to the theoretical result, indicating that the wavelet analysis method can extract the weak infrared signals induced by cyclic loading in the background of strong interference to some degree. The results provide an experimental basis and ideas for monitoring crustal stress and tectonic activities using thermal infrared remote sensing.

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