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Induced Polarization (IP) effect is particularly effective for metallic sulfides, and is used as an effective exploration method for metallic mineral resources. In general, the time-domain IP (TDIP) method requires shorter measurement time than the Spectral IP (SIP) method, and the noise originating from the transmitted wave has less impact on the decay waveform of the potential after current interruption. Therefore, spectral analysis of the potential decay waveform obtained by the TDIP method is expected to contribute to the efficient acquisition of information on frequency responses comparable to the SIP. However, the decay waveforms of electric potentials are often easily exposed to ambient noise, and using noisy data for frequency-domain transformations reduces the accuracy of frequency responses estimation. In this study, we propose a simple method for spectral analysis of TDIP waveforms that can robustly estimate the frequency response of complex resistivity even for noisy time-series data.