Abstract:To address the issue of low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (BOTDR) system used for on-site monitoring of coal mine shafts, a combined denoising model based on the Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DT-CWT) and an improved LMS algorithm is proposed for denoising the BOTDR distributed fiber optic monitoring signals. Firstly, a model based on DT-CWT was designed to decompose the original signal, with sample entropy used as the objective function to automatically select the optimal wavelet decomposition level. Subsequently, the LMS algorithm was used to calculate the adaptive denoising threshold of the original signal, and the convergence speed and performance of the LMS algorithm were improved by optimizing the hyperbolic cosine function. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, a denoising experiment on BOTDR temperature signals was conducted. Finally, based on the monitoring project at the Guotun Coal Mine shaft in Shandong Province, the DT-CWT-LMS algorithm was used to study the fiber optic monitoring signals. The experimental results showed that the denoising effect of the DT CWT-LMS algorithm is significantly better than that of the traditional wavelet threshold denoising methods, with an average SNR improvement of 32.03% and an average RMSE reduction of 33.2%. The on-site research results indicated that after denoising, the average reduction in sample entropy was 64.75%, with the data difference compared to fiber optic grating sensors being within 5%, confirming that the background noise in the signal had been effectively suppressed. This study provides an effective signal denoising method for the application of BOTDR technology in coal mine shaft monitoring.