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Time-frequency analysis of seismic data using synchrosqueezing wavelet transform

YANGKANG CHEN1 TINGTING LIU2 XIAOHONG CHEN2 JINGYE LI2 ERYING WANG3
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1 Bureau of Economic Geology, John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, University Station, Box X, Austin, TX 78713-8924, U.S.A.,
2 State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, China University of Petroleum, Fuxue Road 18th, Beijing 102200, P.R. China.,
JSE 2014, 23(4), 303–312;
Submitted: 8 April 2014 | Accepted: 2 July 2014 | Published: 1 September 2014
© 2014 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

Chen, Y., Liu, T., Chen, X., Li, J. and Wang, E., 2014. Time-frequency analysis of seismic data using synchrosqueezing wavelet transform. Journal of Seismic Exploration, 23: 303-312. Time-frequency (TF) decomposition is used for characterizing the non-stationary relation between time and instantaneous frequency, which is very important in the processing and interpretation of seismic data. The conventional time-frequency analysis approaches suffer from the contradiction between time resolution and frequency resolution. A new time-frequency analysis approach is proposed based on the synchrosqueezing wavelet transform (SSWT). The SSWT is an empirical-mode-decomposition-like tool but uses a different approach in constructing the components. With the help of the synchrosqueezing techniques, the SSWT can obtain obvious higher time and frequency resolution. Synthetic examples show that the SSWT based TF analysis can exactly capture the variable frequency components. Field data tests show the potential of the proposed approach in detecting anomalies of high-frequency attenuation and detecting the deep-layer weak signal.

Keywords
time-frequency analysis
synchrosqueezing wavelet transform
low-frequency anomalies
deep-layer weak signal
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