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A new double deconvolution method suitable for non-stationary seismograms in the time-frequency domain

RONG-RONG WANG1 YONG-SHOU DAI1 CHUANG LI2 PENG ZHANG1 YONG-CHENG TAN1
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1 College of Information and Control Engineering, China university of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, P.R. China. 913290023@qq.com,
2 Department of Geophysics, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, P.R. China.,
JSE 2015, 24(5), 401–417;
Submitted: 9 June 2025 | Revised: 9 June 2025 | Accepted: 9 June 2025 | Published: 9 June 2025
© 2025 by the Authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Wang, R.-R., Dai, Y.-S., Li, C., Zhang, P. and Tan, Y.-C., 2015. A new double deconvolution method suitable for non-stationary seismograms in the time-frequency domain. Journal of Seismic Exploration, 24: 401-417. Conventional deconvolution methods are based on the assumption that the seismogram is stationary; however, actual seismic data cannot satisfy the above assumption. Thus, this paper proposes a double deconvolution method in the time-frequency domain to improve the resolution of the non-stationary seismogram. First, the quadratic spectrum modeling method, in combination with the bispectrum method based on higher-order cumulants, was used to extract a wavelet from the non-stationary seismogram, and the spectrum division method was applied to the entire seismogram to perform deconvolution. Then, time-varying wavelets were extracted from the first deconvolution result in the time-frequency domain, and the residual wavelets on every point spectrum were eliminated from the seismogram by a second deconvolution. Simulation experiments and field data processing demonstrated that the proposed method overcomes the interference of adjacent strata effectively and greatly improves the resolution of the non-stationary seismogram.

Keywords
double deconvolution method
non-stationary seismogram
time-varying wavelet
quadratic spectral modeling
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