A COMPARISON OF STATISTICAL AND DETERMINISTIC WIENER DECONVOLUTION OF DEEP-TOW SEISMIC DATA*

Wiener ‘spiking’ deconvolution of seismic traces in the absence of a known source wavelet relies upon the use of digital filters, which are optimum in a least-squares error sense only if the wavelet to be deconvolved is minimum phase. In the marine environment in particular this condition is frequently violated, since bubble pulse oscillations result in source signatures which deviate significantly from minimum phase. The degree to which the deconvolution is impaired by such violation is generally difficult to assess, since without a measured source signature there is no optimally deconvolved trace with which the spiked trace may be compared. A recently developed near-bottom seismic profiler used in conjunction with a surface air gun source produces traces which contain the far-field source signature as the first arrival. Knowledge of this characteristic wavelet permits the design of two-sided Wiener spiking and shaping filters which can be used to accurately deconvolve the remainder of the trace. In this paper the performance of such optimum-lag filters is compared with that of the zero-lag (one-sided) operators which can be evaluated from the reflected arrival sequence alone by assuming a minimum phase source wavelet. Results indicate that the use of zero-lag operators on traces containing non-minimum phase wavelets introduces significant quantities of noise energy into the seismic record. Signal to noise ratios may however be preserved or even increased during deconvolution by the use of optimum-lag spiking or shaping filters. A debubbling technique involving matched filtering of the trace with the source wavelet followed by optimum-lag Wiener deconvolution did not give a higher quality result than can be obtained simply by the application of a suitably chosen Wiener shaping filter. However, cross correlation of an optimum-lag spike filtered trace with the known ‘actual output’ of the filter when presented with the source signature is found to enhance signal-to-noise ratio whilst maintaining improved resolution.     

Applications of Savitzky-Golay Filter for Seismic Random Noise Reduction

This article utilizes Savitzky–Golay (SG) filter to eliminate seismic random noise. This is a novel method for seismic random noise reduction in which SG filter adopts piecewise weighted polynomial via leastsquares estimation. Therefore, effective smoothing is achieved in extracting the original signal from noise environment while retaining the shape of the signal as close as possible to the original one. Although there are lots of classical methods such as Wiener filtering and wavelet denoising applied to eliminate seismic random noise, the SG filter outperforms them in approximating the true signal. SG filter will obtain a good tradeoff in waveform smoothing and valid signal preservation under suitable conditions. These are the appropriate window size and the polynomial degree. Through examples from synthetic seismic signals and field seismic data, we demonstrate the good performance of SG filter by comparing it with the Wiener filtering and wavelet denoising methods.     

时频域相位滤波在远震接收函数噪声压制中的应用

宽频带地震观测数据中有效信号和干扰噪声经常发生混频效应,常规的频率域滤波方法很难将二者分离.地震波信号属于时变非平稳信号,时频分析方法能够同时得到地震波信号随着时间和频率变化的振幅和相位特征,S变换是其中较为高效的时频分析工具之一.本文以S变换为例,提出了基于相位叠加的时频域相位滤波方法.与传统叠加方法相比,相位叠加方法对强振幅不敏感,对波形一致性相当敏感,更加利于有效弱信号信息的检测.时频域相位滤波方法滤除与有效信号不相干的背景噪声,保留了相位一致的有效信号成分,显著提高了信噪比.运用理论合成的远震接收函数数据和实际的宽频带地震观测数据检验结果显示该方法较传统的带通滤波方法相比,即使在信噪较低且混频严重条件下,时频域相位滤波方法的滤波效果依然很明显,有助于识别能量较弱的有效信号.     

Translation-invariant wavelet denoising of full-tensor gravity –gradiometer data

Denoising of full-tensor gravity-gradiometer data involves detailed information from field sources, especially the data mixed with high-frequency random noise. We present a denoising method based on the translation-invariant wavelet with mixed thresholding and adaptive threshold to remove the random noise and retain the data details. The novel mixed thresholding approach is devised to filter the random noise based on the energy distribution of the wavelet coefficients corresponding to the signal and random noise. The translationinvariant wavelet suppresses pseudo-Gibbs phenomena, and the mixed thresholding better separates the wavelet coefficients than traditional thresholding. Adaptive Bayesian threshold is used to process the wavelet coefficients according to the specific characteristics of the wavelet coefficients at each decomposition scale. A two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform is used to denoise gridded data for better computational efficiency. The results of denoising model and real data suggest that compared with Gaussian regional filter, the proposed method suppresses the white Gaussian noise and preserves the high-frequency information in gravity-gradiometer data. Satisfactory denoising is achieved with the translation-invariant wavelet.     

Bayesian frequency-domain blind deconvolution of ground-penetrating radar data

Enhancing the resolution and accuracy of surface ground-penetrating radar (GPR) reflection data by inverse filtering to recover a zero-phased band-limited reflectivity image requires a deconvolution technique that takes the mixed-phase character of the embedded wavelet into account. In contrast, standard stochastic deconvolution techniques assume that the wavelet is minimum phase and, hence, often meet with limited success when applied to GPR data. We present a new general-purpose blind deconvolution algorithm for mixed-phase wavelet estimation and deconvolution that (1) uses the parametrization of a mixed-phase wavelet as the convolution of the wavelet's minimum-phase equivalent with a dispersive all-pass filter, (2) includes prior information about the wavelet to be estimated in a Bayesian framework, and (3) relies on the assumption of a sparse reflectivity. Solving the normal equations using the data autocorrelation function provides an inverse filter that optimally removes the minimum-phase equivalent of the wavelet from the data, which leaves traces with a balanced amplitude spectrum but distorted phase. To compensate for the remaining phase errors, we invert in the frequency domain for an all-pass filter thereby taking advantage of the fact that the action of the all-pass filter is exclusively contained in its phase spectrum. A key element of our algorithm and a novelty in blind deconvolution is the inclusion of prior information that allows resolving ambiguities in polarity and timing that cannot be resolved using the sparseness measure alone. We employ a global inversion approach for non-linear optimization to find the all-pass filter phase values for each signal frequency. We tested the robustness and reliability of our algorithm on synthetic data with different wavelets, 1-D reflectivity models of different complexity, varying levels of added noise, and different types of prior information. When applied to realistic synthetic 2-D data and 2-D field data, we obtain images with increased temporal resolution compared to the results of standard processing.     

基于提升算法和百分位数软阈值的小波去噪技术

在地震勘探领域,随机噪声一直是影响地震信号信噪比的主要因素之一,如何从被干扰的地震信号中有效去除随机噪声并保护有用信号具有重要的意义.针对经典小波变换在计算效率方面的缺陷,本文推荐应用提升算法实现第二代小波变换的构建,分析和对比了提升算法(Lifting Scheme)下不同小波变换方法的特性,选取更加符合小波域去噪原理的CDF 9/7双正交小波变换作为基本算法,同时应用了简单、有效的百分位数(Percentiles)软阈值进行信噪分离.通过理论模型处理,本方法可以在去噪能力和保护有用信号之间找到很好的平衡点.实际剖面的处理效果表明,此方法不仅能有效的滤除随机噪声,而且很好地保护有用信号,提高地震数据分析的精确性.     

基于压缩感知和宽带俞式低通整形滤波器的地震低频信息特征分析与补偿

碳酸盐岩储集层已成为世界石油新发现储量的重要组成部分,识别该类储层对地震数据的信噪比、分辨率以及成像精度提出了更高的要求.本文从地震低频信号缺失的问题出发,首先研究了低频信号缺失对子波、合成地震记录和波阻抗反演的影响,其次分析了深层碳酸盐岩裂缝储层中弱信号低频缺失的特征.针对低频信号缺失问题,本文利用压缩感知理论,并结合反射系数的稀疏特性,提出了自适应计算L1范数权重因子的方法,同时构建了改进的宽带俞式低通整形滤波器,在不影响地震高频信号的同时对地震弱信号进行低频补偿.结果表明,缺失低频信号,会使子波旁瓣变大,合成记录出现假同相轴,厚层波阻抗反演畸变,深层碳酸盐岩裂缝储层弱信号难以识别;而本文方法有效地补偿了深层碳酸盐岩裂缝储层弱信号10Hz以下的频率成分,使得波组反射特征更加清晰,深层弱信号成像质量得到改善,为进一步有效识别深层碳酸盐岩裂缝储层建立了基础.     

Feasibility of utilizing wavelet phase to map the CO2 plume at the Ketzin pilot site,Germany

Spectral decomposition is a powerful tool that can provide geological details dependent upon discrete frequencies. Complex spectral decomposition using inversion strategies differs from conventional spectral decomposition methods in that it produces not only frequency information but also wavelet phase information. This method was applied to a time‐lapse three‐dimensional seismic dataset in order to test the feasibility of using wavelet phase changes to detect and map injected carbon dioxide within the reservoir at the Ketzin carbon dioxide storage site, Germany. Simplified zero‐offset forward modelling was used to help verify the effectiveness of this technique and to better understand the wavelet phase response from the highly heterogeneous storage reservoir and carbon dioxide plume. Ambient noise and signal‐to‐noise ratios were calculated from the raw data to determine the extracted wavelet phase. Strong noise caused by rainfall and the assumed spatial distribution of sandstone channels in the reservoir could be correlated with phase anomalies. Qualitative and quantitative results indicate that the wavelet phase extracted by the complex spectral decomposition technique has great potential as a practical and feasible tool for carbon dioxide detection at the Ketzin pilot site.     

SELF-MATCHING DECONVOLUTION IN THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN *

In a previous paper the author showed how, by computing an inverse filter in the frequency domain, an automatic compromise could be made between the conflicting requirements to spike a wavelet and to keep the attendant noise amplification within bounds. This paper extends the technique to take account of errors in the estimated shape of the wavelet defined to the deconvolution process. The drastic effects which such errors can have if they are ignored are demonstrated. A novel form of filter–called the “self-matching filter”–is defined which allows the user to limit not only the noise amplification but also the sensitivity of the filter to random uncertainties in the estimated wavelet. This is achieved by whitening the spectrum only within automatically selected pass bands whilst suppressing other noise-dominated or uncertainly defined frequency components. Conventional Wiener filtering is shown to be a special case of this more general filter, namely one in which the wavelet uncertainty is completely ignored. The type of phase spectrum which the output pulse should be designed to possess (e.g. zero phase or minimum phase) is briefly discussed.     

一种小波综合阈值地震信号降噪方法

小波阈值方法中硬、软阈值方法是地震信号降噪常用方法,但容易造成信号中高频信息丢失导致地震误判和漏判情况发生。小波综合阈值方法继承和发展了硬、软阈值降噪方法的优点,对信号高频部分用硬阈值方法,以提高高频信号能量,对信号低频部分用软阈值方法,提高信号降噪能力的同时保证信号连续性和光滑性。利用噪声信号小波系数小和地震信号小波系数大的特征,进行雷克子波降噪仿真实验和实际地震信号降噪实验。仿真实验表明,小波综合阈值方法降噪后波形MSE值最小,且降噪后与原信号波形最近似,降噪后波形高频部分能量增强且抑制低频部分能量。最后,对实际采集的地震信号进行降噪处理,处理后信号中能量增强被压制,利用处理后的信号可得到地震的初至时间。     

OPTIMUM DIGITAL FILTERS FOR SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO ENHANCEMENT*

One of the main objectives of seismic digital processing is the improvement of the signal-to-noise ratio in the recorded data. Wiener filters have been successfully applied in this capacity, but alternate filtering devices also merit our attention. Two such systems are the matched filter and the output energy filter. The former is better known to geophysicists as the crosscorrelation filter, and has seen widespread use for the processing of vibratory source data, while the latter is. much less familiar in seismic work. The matched filter is designed such that ideally the presence of a given signal is indicated by a single large deflection in the output. The output energy filter ideally reveals the presence of such a signal by producing a longer burst of energy in the time interval where the signal occurs. The received seismic trace is assumed to be an additive mixture of signal and noise. The shape of the signal must be known in order to design the matched filter, but only the autocorrelation function of this signal need be known to obtain the output energy filter. The derivation of these filters differs according to whether the noise is white or colored. In the former case the noise autocorrelation function consists of only a single spike at lag zero, while in the latter the shape of this noise autocorrelation function is arbitrary. We propose a novel version of the matched filter. Its memory function is given by the minimum-delay wavelet whose autocorrelation function is computed from selected gates of an actual seismic trace. For this reason explicit knowledge of the signal shape is not required for its design; nevertheless, its performance level is not much below that achievable with ordinary matched filters. We call this new filter the “mini-matched” filter. With digital computation in mind, the design criteria are formulated and optimized with time as a discrete variable. We illustrate the techniques with simple numerical examples, and discuss many of the interesting properties that these filters exhibit.     

基于带状混合矩阵ICA实现地震盲反褶积

基于对地震反褶积本质上是一个盲过程的认识,引入高阶统计学盲源分离技术——独立分量分析（ICA）实现地震盲反褶积.在无噪声假设条件下,利用地震记录时间延迟矩阵和地震子波带状褶积矩阵,将地震褶积模型转化为一般线性混合ICA模型,采用FastICA算法,将带状性质作为先验信息,实现所谓带状ICA算法（B\|ICA）,得到个数与子波算子长度相等的多个估计反射系数序列和估计子波序列,最后利用褶积模型提供的附加信息从中优选出最佳的反射系数序列及相应的地震子波.模型数据和实际二维地震道数值算例表明：对于统计性反褶积,在不对反射系数作高斯白噪假设,不对子波作最小相位假设的所谓“全盲”条件下,基于ICA方法（反射系数非高斯分布,地震子波非最小相位）可以较好解决地震盲反褶积问题,是基于二阶统计特性的地震信号统计性反褶积方法的提升,具有可行性和应用前景.     

基于S变换的软阈值滤波在深地震反射数据处理中的应用

深地震反射原始单炮数据是非平稳的弱能量反射信号,信噪比较低.如何提高信噪比一直是深地震反射数据前处理中的一大难题.S变换是一种适用于分析非平稳信号的时频变换方法.同其他分析时变信号的方法相比,S变换的基本小波不必满足小波在时间域均值为零的容许性条件,它的时频分辨率与分析信号的频率有关,且其在时间域的积分可以得到傅里叶频谱,其反变换也简单.因此,S变换容易表示深地震反射信号复杂的时频特性.本文在S变换的基础上,利用软阈值滤波方法对深地震反射数据进行处理,实验结果表明,该方法有效地提高了信噪比,压制了有效频带范围内的混频干扰,突出了弱反射信号,使得波组信息更加丰富,有利于连续追踪有效反射波组和识别薄地层,特别是提高了深部Moho界面反射层位的分辨率,为深地震反射剖面后续处理和准确解释奠定了基础.     

THE PHASE PROPERTY OF A FINITE REALIZATION OF RANDOM NOISE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON DECONVOLUTION *

A finite realization of a discrete random noise process may be considered as a one-sided energy signal. Its phase property can then be described by means of the center position. The samples of such a realization are the components of a random signal vector and the center position is therefore a random variable. A statistical analysis shows that the expected value of the center position equals half the time duration of the realization. This implies that the Z-transform of the realization may be expected to have an equal number of poles and zeros inside and outside the unit circle. The standard deviation from the expected value of the center position is shown to depend on the time duration of the realization and on the autocorrelation of the process. It follows that, for processes that can be described by the convolution of a white series and a disturbance wavelet, the center position is independent of the phase property of the wavelet. A conclusion based on these results is that the homomorphic technique of wavelet estimation through cepstrum stacking must give questionable outcomes. Another conclusion is that the super-position of a realization of random noise on a minimum phase wavelet will in general give a mixed phase resulting signal. It is pointed out that schemes for the derivation of deconvolution filters do not take account of this phenomenon.     

PREDICTION ERROR FILTERS,WHITE NOISE AND ORTHOGONAL COORDINATES*

Optimum filters can be computed using orthogonal coordinates obtained from the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the autocorrelation matrix. The method is used to obtain unit distance prediction error filters. The output of a unit distance prediction error filter when applied to the input wavelet is an impulse at zero time. The effect on the output of added white noise is easily obtained using the approach through the orthogonal coordinates. The added white noise results in output wavelets which are no longer impulses at zero time. The decrease in time resolution gives a filter that does not increase undesirable high frequency noise as much as filters computed without white noise. Orthogonal coordinates with little signal energy can be omitted from the filter computation resulting in output wavelets resembling those computed using added white noise.     

基于Curvelet变换的探地雷达资料噪声衰减方法

噪声衰减是探地雷达信号处理中的关键问题之一。当探测目标埋藏深度比较浅时,其反射信号与直耦信号和地面回波信号相互重叠,直接影响目标反射波到达时刻的检测及目标的正确定位。针对这个问题,本文提出了一种基于Curvelet变换的噪声衰减方法。通过对理论数值模拟数据和实测数据的处理,以及与平均消去法和二维连续小波该方法处理结果的对比,验证了该方法的可行性和有效性。处理结果显示,该方法不仅可以去除背景噪声、同时可以衰减倾斜相关的相干干扰和数据中的随机噪声。与二维连续小波变换方法相比有更高的计算效率。     

GNMF小波谱分离在地震勘探噪声压制中的应用

地震勘探资料噪声压制及信噪比提高是整个地震勘探信号处理过程中的重要任务,随着地震勘探深度的增加及其复杂性,人们对地震数据质量的要求越来越高.勘探环境的复杂化使得采集到的地震资料中有效信号被大量噪声淹没,无法清晰辨识,严重影响后续的数据处理与解释.小波去噪是地震勘探中常用且发展较成熟的一种方法,但是其涉及到的阈值函数选取问题一直令人困扰,虽然已有多种阈值函数被提出,但仍存在各自的缺陷.本文利用小波分解在时域及频域良好的信号细节体现特性,引入模式识别中的非负矩阵分解(NMF)谱分离思想,针对小波系数阈值优化问题,提出了一种小波域图非负矩阵分解(GNMF)消噪算法.该方法首先在小波分解基础上,利用GNMF算法实现小波分解系数谱中信号分量与噪声分量的谱分离,然后通过反变换重构各分离子谱对应的子信号,最后利用K均值聚类算法将得到的多个子信号划分为信号类及噪声类,最终得到重构信号及分离噪声.合成记录和实际地震资料的消噪结果验证了新方法在提高信号与噪声分离准确性和精度方面的有效性,同时新方法避免了阈值选取造成的噪声压制不理想或有效成分损失问题.与小波消噪结果的对比及数值分析也说明了新方法在噪声压制及有效成分保持方面的优势.     

基于探地雷达信号处理的小波基选取研究

针对探地雷达信号处理和分析时小波基选取存在的问题,本文在分析探地雷达信号特点的基础上,首先从理论上讨论小波基的选取准则,然后再从实验角度进行对比、判别,认为在进行小波分解和重构时应该分别选择不同的小波基函数进行处理,这样可以保证重构信号的精确度,增强对信号的处理能力,从而也突破了以往分解与重构时都采用同一个小波基进行处理的做法.最后通过实际资料的处理,指出bior2.6小波基在进行雷达信号处理时效果最佳,不仅去噪彻底,而且能够保留有效信号的高频部分,提高信号的分辨率和信噪比,为后续解释工作打好了基础.     

基于小波变换与小波包变换的降噪方法比较

在模拟地震记录信号中加入信噪比为17的高斯白噪声,然后分别采用小波降噪和小波包降噪方法,对含噪信号进行降噪处理。在不同降噪阈值下,比较降噪后信号的信噪比。结果表明:在同一降噪阈值下,小波包降噪后信号的信噪比高于小波降噪后信号的信噪比,而且采用wbmpen方法给定的阈值明显可以提高降噪后信号的信噪比。     

L1 norm optimal solution match processing in the wavelet domain

Greater attention has been paid to vintage-merge processing of seismic data and extracting more valuable information by the geophysicist. A match filter is used within many important areas such as splicing seismic data, matching seismic data with different ages and sources, 4-D seismic monitoring, and so on. The traditional match filtering method is subject to many restrictions and is usually difficult to overcome the impact of noise. Based on the traditional match filter, we propose the wavelet domain L1 norm optimal matching filter. In this paper, two different types of seismic data are decomposed to the wavelet domain, different detailed effective information is extracted for L1-norm optimal matching, and ideal results are achieved. Based on the model test, we find that the L1 norm optimal matching filter attenuates the noise and the waveform, amplitude, and phase coherence of result signals are better than the conventional method. The field data test shows that, with our method, the seismic events in the filter results have better continuity which achieves the high precision seismic match requirements.