L'EGALISATION SPECTRALE: UN MOYEN D'AMELIORER LA QUALITE DES DONNEES SISMIQUES*

In land seismic surveys spectrum equalization can increase the quality of seismic data in a selected frequency band. The power of lower frequencies in the spectrum of input traces is generally greater than that of higher frequencies, particularly in land seismic surveys because of ground roll. In order to improve the quality of seismic data it is necessary to raise the energy of higher frequencies to the same level as that of lower frequencies, without alteration of the phases. The first step of the method is to compute the amplitude spectrum of each input trace to determine a weighting function which is then applied to the amplitude spectrum in order to balance it. The function is the inverse of the short wavelength variation of the amplitude spectrum. The short wavelength variation can be obtained by interpolation between average values of the modulus of the amplitude spectrum computed in narrow bands within a selected band of frequencies. Another way of obtaining the short wavelength variation is to apply a low-pass filter to the amplitude spectrum. The calculations are readily performed in the frequency domain by the Fourier transform. Spectrum equalization is automatically adjusted to each trace and does not modify the average amplitude in the time domain. However, as the frequency band and energy of the ground roll both vary according to the distance from the shot, spectrum equalization tends to make the spectrum of output traces independent of the offset distance. The use of spectrum equalization before any two-dimensional filtering improves ground roll elimination. Continuity and resolution of horizons are also increased by spectrum equalization before CDP stack. Several examples of applications of spectrum equalization to seismic land and marine surveys are shown.     

Ground roll wave suppression based on wavelet frequency division and radial trace transform

Ground roll waves interfere with seismic data. The suppression of ground roll waves based on the division of wavelet frequencies considers the low-frequency characteristics of ground roll waves. However, this method will not be effective when the ground roll wave and the effective signal have the same frequency bands because of overlapping. The radial trace transform (RTT) considers the apparent velocity difference between the effective signal and the ground roll wave to suppress the latter, but affects the low-frequency components of the former. This study proposes a ground roll wave suppression method by combining the wavelet frequency division and the RTT based on the difference between the ground roll wave velocity and the effective signal and their energy difference in the wavelet domain, thus making full use of the advantages of both methods. First, we decompose the seismic data into different frequency bands through wavelet transform. Second, the RTT and low-cut filtering are applied to the low-frequency band, where the ground roll waves are appearing. Third, we reconstruct the seismic record without ground roll waves by using the inverse RTT and the remaining frequency bands. The proposed method not only improves the ground roll wave suppression, but also protects the signal integrity. The numerical simulation and real seismic data processing results suggest that the proposed method has a strong ability to denoise while preserving the amplitude.     

Ground roll attenuation using a time-frequency dependent polarization filter based on the S transform

The ground roll and body wave usually show significant differences in arrival time, frequency content, and polarization characteristics, and conventional polarization filters that operate in either the time or frequency domain cannot consider all these elements. Therefore, we have developed a time-frequency dependent polarization filter based on the S transform to attenuate the ground roll in seismic records. Our approach adopts the complex coefficients of the S transform of the multi-component seismic data to estimate the local polarization attributes and utilizes the estimated attributes to construct the filter function. In this study, we select the S transform to design this polarization filter because its scalable window length can ensure the same number of cycles of a Fourier sinusoid, thereby rendering more precise estimation of local polarization attributes. The results of applying our approach in synthetic and real data examples demonstrate that the proposed polarization filter can effectively attenuate the ground roll and successfully preserve the body wave.     

Seismic data analysis using local time‐frequency decomposition

Many natural phenomena, including geologic events and geophysical data, are fundamentally nonstationary ‐ exhibiting statistical variation that changes in space and time. Time‐frequency characterization is useful for analysing such data, seismic traces in particular. We present a novel time‐frequency decomposition, which aims at depicting the nonstationary character of seismic data. The proposed decomposition uses a Fourier basis to match the target signal using regularized least‐squares inversion. The decomposition is invertible, which makes it suitable for analysing nonstationary data. The proposed method can provide more flexible time‐frequency representation than the classical S transform. Results of applying the method to both synthetic and field data examples demonstrate that the local time‐frequency decomposition can characterize nonstationary variation of seismic data and be used in practical applications, such as seismic ground‐roll noise attenuation and multicomponent data registration.     

稀疏时频分解方法的研究与运用（英文）

Gabor变换和S变换是常用的时频分析工具。根据测不准原理,它们的时频分解结果无法在时间域和频率域同时具有很高的分辨率。为了提高非平稳信号时频分解结果的分辨率,本文提出瞬时频率分布函数（IFDF）并利用它表达非平稳信号。当非平稳信号时频成分的分布满足测不准原理对信号可分辨的要求时,瞬时频率分布函数的支集和短时Fourier变换的小波脊支集是同一个集合。利用IFDF的该特征,本文提出一种迭代算法（Sparse-STFT）实现了信号的稀疏时频分解。该算法在每次迭代过程中利用残留信号的短时Fourier变换结果的脊支集更新信号的时频成分,每次迭代得到的时频成分的叠加结果即为最终的稀疏时频分解结果。文中的数值实验证明了Sparse-STFT可以有效地提高非平稳信号时频分解结果的分辨率。最后,本文将该方法应用于地震数据面波的压制中,取得了理想的处理结果。     

面波压制的Ridgelet域方法

面波压制是地震数据处理中的一个重要问题. 常规的处理方法虽然能在一定程度上压制面波,但是在处理过程中只是单一的利用面波的一种特性,例如频率域滤波中利用面波与有效信号频率之间的差别,因此难以有效地压制面波. 利用Ridgelet变换可将原始地震记录拓展到（a,τ,p）三维空间,从而可以同时利用地震记录的视速度、时间和尺度域特性差别,实现有效信号与面波的分离. 文中通过理论合成记录及实际地震记录的算例,证实了基于Ridgelet变换的面波压制方法是有效且可行的.     

Dip‐adaptive singular‐value decomposition filtering for seismic reflection enhancement

We present a singular value decomposition (SVD) filtering method for the enhancement of coherent reflections and for attenuation of noise. The method is applied in two steps. First normal move‐out (NMO) correction is applied to shot or CMP records, with the purpose of flattening the reflections. We use a spatial SVD filter with a short sliding window to enhance coherent horizontal events. Then the data are sorted in common‐offset panels and the local dip is estimated for each panel. The next SVD filtering is performed on a small number of traces and a small number of time samples centred around the output sample position. Data in a local window are corrected for linear moveout corresponding to the dips before SVD. At the central time sample position, we sum over the dominant eigenimages of a few traces, corresponding to SVD dip filtering. We illustrate the method using land seismic data from the Tacutu basin, located in the north‐east of Brazil. The results show that the proposed method is effective and is able to reveal reflections masked by ground‐roll and other types of noise.     

基于连续小波变换的自适应面波压制方法

面波干扰的抑制是陆上地震资料处理的主要问题之一.本文根据炮集记录中面波与反射波主要能量在小波域分布区域的不同,以及面波干扰的影响随炮检距变化等特点,提出了一种具有时变、空变特性的自适应面波衰减方法.文中将该方法用于模型及实际炮集资料的处理,并与常用的高通滤波方法进行对比,结果表明,该方法在衰减面波干扰的同时,能更好地保持反射波的振幅及相位信息.     

Robust adaptive polarization analysis method for eliminating ground roll in 3C land seismics

To improve the data quality of converted waves, and better identify and suppress the strong ground-roll interference in three-component (3C) seismic recordings on land, we present an adaptive polarization filtering method, which can effectively separate the groundroll interference by combining complex polarization and instantaneous polarization analysis. The ground roll noise is characterized by elliptical plane polarization, strong energy, low apparent velocity, and low frequency. After low-pass filtering of the 3C data input within a given time-window of the ground roll, the complex covariance matrix is decomposed using the sliding time window with overlapping data and length that depends on the dominant ground-roll frequency. The ground-roll model is established using the main eigenvectors, and the ground roll is detected and identified using the instantaneous polarization area attributes and average energy constraints of the ground-roll zone. Finally, the ground roll is subtracted. The threshold of the method is stable and easy to select, and offers good groundroll detection. The method is a robust polarization filtering method. Model calculations and actual data indicate that the method can effectively identify and attenuate ground roll while preserving the effective signals.     

The estimation of spectra from time‐frequency transforms for use in attenuation studies

We introduce the signal dependent time–frequency distribution, which is a time–frequency distribution that allows the user to optimize the tradeoff between joint time–frequency resolution and suppression of transform artefacts. The signal‐dependent time–frequency distribution, as well as the short‐time Fourier transform, Stockwell transform, and the Fourier transform are analysed for their ability to estimate the spectrum of a known wavelet used in a tuning wedge model. Next, the signal‐dependent time–frequency distribution, and fixed‐ and variable‐window transforms are used to estimate spectra from a zero‐offset synthetic seismogram. Attenuation is estimated from the associated spectral ratio curves, and the accuracy of the results is compared. The synthetic consisted of six pairs of strong reflections, based on real well‐log data, with a modeled intrinsic attenuation value of 1000/Q = 20. The signal‐dependent time–frequency distribution was the only time–frequency transform found to produce spectra that estimated consistent attenuation values, with an average of 1000/Q = 26±2; results from the fixed‐ and variable‐window transforms were 24±17 and 39±10, respectively. Finally, all three time–frequency transforms were used in a pre‐stack attenuation estimation method (the pre‐stack Q inversion algorithm) applied to a gather from a North Sea seismic dataset, to estimate attenuation between nine different strong reflections. In this case, the signal‐dependent time‐frequency distribution produced spectra more consistent with the constant‐Q model of attenuation assumed in the pre‐stack attenuation estimation algorithm: the average L1 residuals of the spectral ratio surfaces from the theoretical constant‐Q expectation for the signal‐dependent time‐frequency distribution, short‐time Fourier transform, and Stockwell transform were 0.12, 0.21, and 0.33, respectively. Based on the results shown, the signal‐dependent time‐frequency distribution is a time–frequency distribution that can provide more accurate and precise estimations of the amplitude spectrum of a reflection, due to a higher attainable time–frequency resolution.     

Unsupervised separation of seismic waves using the watershed algorithm on time-scale images

This paper illustrates the use of image processing techniques for separating seismic waves. Because of the non‐stationarity of seismic signals, the continuous wavelet transform is more suitable than the conventional Fourier transforms for the representation, and thus the analysis, of seismic processes. It provides a 2D representation, called a scalogram, of a 1D signal where the seismic events are well localized and isolated. Supervised methods based on this time‐scale representation have already been used to separate seismic events, but they require strong interactions with the geophysicist. This paper focuses on the use of the watershed algorithm to segment time‐scale representations of seismic signals, which leads to an automatic estimation of the wavelet representation of each wave separately. The computation of the inverse wavelet transform then leads to the reconstruction of the different waves. This segmentation, tracked over the different traces of the seismic profile, enables an accurate separation of the different wavefields. This method has been successfully validated on several real data sets.     

Ground roll attenuation based on an empirical curvelet transform

In the field of seismic exploration, ground roll seriously affects the deep effective reflections from subsurface deep structures. Traditional curvelet transform cannot provide an adaptive basis function to achieve a suboptimal denoised result. In this paper, we propose a method based on empirical curvelet transform (ECT) for ground roll attenuation. Unlike the traditional curvelet transform, this method not only decomposes seismic data into multiscale and multi-directional components, but also provides an adaptive filter bank according to frequency content of seismic data itself. So, ground roll can be separated by using this method. However, as the frequency of reflection and ground roll components are close, we apply singular value decomposition (SVD) in the curvelet domain to differentiate the ground roll and reflection better. Examples of synthetic and field seismic data reveal that the proposed method based ECT performs better than the traditional curvelet method in terms of the suppression of ground roll.     

Ground-roll attenuation using modified common-offset–common-reflection-surface stacking

We modified the common-offset–common-reflection-surface (COCRS) method to attenuate ground roll, the coherent noise typically generated by a low-velocity, low-frequency, and high-amplitude Rayleigh wave. The COCRS operator is based on hyperbolas, thus it fits events with hyperbolic traveltimes such as reflection events in prestack data. Conversely, ground roll is linear in the common-midpoint (CMP) and common-shot gathers and can be distinguished and attenuated by the COCRS operator. Thus, we search for the dip and curvature of the reflections in the common-shot gathers prior to the common-offset section. Because it is desirable to minimize the damage to the reflection amplitudes, we only stack the multicoverage data in the ground-roll areas. Searching the CS gathers before the CO section is another modification of the conventional COCRS stacking. We tested the proposed method using synthetic and real data sets from western Iran. The results of the ground-roll attenuation with the proposed method were compared with results of the f–k filtering and conventional COCRS stacking after f–k filtering. The results show that the proposed method attenuates the aliased and nonaliased ground roll better than the f–k filtering and conventional CRS stacking. However, the computation time was higher than other common methods such as f–k filtering.     

径向道变换压制相干噪声方法研究

径向道变换(Radial Trace Transform)是将地震道集振幅值从偏移距一双程旅行时坐标系变换到视速度-双程旅行时坐标系,通过这种坐标系的变换,使相干噪声与有效信号在视速度和频率方面都有效分离.本文在介绍RT变换基本原理基础上,分析了RT变换中两种常用插值方法及其特点.并利用对模拟地震资料的处理,证明了RT域模拟-相减法较其带通滤波法在相干噪声压制与反射信号保持方面具有明显优势.最后,根据噪声特点,通过选择合理RT滤波参数,对实际地震资料进行处理试验,获得了较好的去噪效果,明显提高了资料信噪比,验证了研究方法的有效性.     

Scattered ground‐roll attenuation using model‐driven interferometry

Scattered ground roll is a type of noise observed in land seismic data that can be particularly difficult to suppress. Typically, this type of noise cannot be removed using conventional velocity‐based filters. In this paper, we discuss a model‐driven form of seismic interferometry that allows suppression of scattered ground‐roll noise in land seismic data. The conventional cross‐correlate and stack interferometry approach results in scattered noise estimates between two receiver locations (i.e. as if one of the receivers had been replaced by a source). For noise suppression, this requires that each source we wish to attenuate the noise from is co‐located with a receiver. The model‐driven form differs, as the use of a simple model in place of one of the inputs for interferometry allows the scattered noise estimate to be made between a source and a receiver. This allows the method to be more flexible, as co‐location of sources and receivers is not required, and the method can be applied to data sets with a variety of different acquisition geometries. A simple plane‐wave model is used, allowing the method to remain relatively data driven, with weighting factors for the plane waves determined using a least‐squares solution. Using a number of both synthetic and real two‐dimensional (2D) and three‐dimensional (3D) land seismic data sets, we show that this model‐driven approach provides effective results, allowing suppression of scattered ground‐roll noise without having an adverse effect on the underlying signal.     

Simulations of non‐stationary frequency content and its importance to seismic assessment of structures

To verify the importance of the non‐stationary frequency characteristic of seismic ground motion, a joint time–frequency analysis technique of time signals, called chirplet‐based signal approximation, is developed to extract the non‐stationary frequency information from the recorded data. The chirplet‐based signal approximation is clear in concept, similar to Fourier Transform in mathematical expressions but with different base functions. Case studies show that the chirplet‐based signal approximation can represent the joint time–frequency variation of seismic ground motion quite well. Both the random models of uniform modulating process and evolutionary process are employed to generate artificial seismic waves. The joint time–frequency modulating function in the random model of evolutionary process is determined by chirplet‐based signal approximation. Finally, non‐linear response analysis of a SODF system and a frame structure is performed based on the generated artificial seismic waves. The results show that the non‐stationary frequency characteristic of seismic ground motion can significantly change the non‐linear response characteristics of structures, particularly when a structure goes into collapse phase under seismic action. It is concluded that non‐stationary frequency characteristic of seismic ground motion should be considered for the assessment of seismic capacity of structures. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Mixed Cadzow filtering method in fractional Fourier domain

Conventional frequency domain singular value decomposition (SVD) filtering method used in random noise attenuation processing causes bending event damage. To mitigate this problem, we present a mixed Cadzow filtering method based on fractional Fourier transform to suppress random noise in 3D seismic data. First, the seismic data is transformed to the time-frequency plane via the fractional Fourier transform. Second, based on the Eigenimage filtering method and Cadzow filtering method, the mixed high-dimensional Hankel matrix is built; then, SVD is performed. Finally, random noise is eliminated effectively by reducing the rank of the matrix. The theoretical model and real applications of the mixed filtering method in a region of Sichuan show that our method can not only suppress noise effectively but also preserve the frequency and phase of effective signals quite well and significantly improve the signal-to-noise ratio of 3D post-stack seismic data.     

Fast hyperbolic deconvolutive Radon transform using generalized Fourier slice theorem

The hyperbolic Radon transform has a long history of applications in seismic data processing because of its ability to focus/sparsify the data in the transform domain. Recently, deconvolutive Radon transform has also been proposed with an improved time resolution which provides improved processing results. The basis functions of the (deconvolutive) Radon transform, however, are time-variant, making the classical Fourier based algorithms ineffective to carry out the required computations. A direct implementation of the associated summations in the time–space domain is also computationally expensive, thus limiting the application of the transform on large data sets. In this paper, we present a new method for fast computation of the hyperbolic (deconvolutive) Radon transform. The method is based on the recently proposed generalized Fourier slice theorem which establishes an analytic expression between the Fourier transforms associated with the data and Radon plane. This allows very fast computations of the forward and inverse transforms simply using fast Fourier transform and interpolation procedures. These canonical transforms are used within an efficient iterative method for sparse solution of (deconvolutive) Radon transform. Numerical examples from synthetic and field seismic data confirm high performance of the proposed fast algorithm for filling in the large gaps in seismic data, separating primaries from multiple reflections, and performing high-quality stretch-free stacking.     

ANALYSE SEQUENTIELLE*

Various authors have recently studied the Walsh and Hadamard transforms for functions with one or two variables. Like the Fourier transform they may be obtained by using the Cooley-Tukey algorithm. They can be calculated all the faster because Walsh functions have only values equal to + 1 or ? 1. The complex number multiplications in the Fourier transform are replaced by additions and subtractions of real numbers. These transforms are more general than that of Fourier because the concept of sequency, i.e. the mean number of zeros per time unit, is substituted for that of frequency. These transforms already have numerous applications to signal transmission. We describe some in the field of seismic prospecting, in particular the compression of the information contained in seismic traces.