Stratigraphic absorption compensation based on multiscale shearlet transform

Seismic waves propagating through viscoelastic media experience stratigraphic absorption and attenuation effects, which directly affect the imaging resolution in seismic exploration. Without stratigraphic absorption, the ratio of deep reflection energy to shallow reflection energy (attenuation ratio) is invariable at different frequencies. If a seismogram is decomposed into different frequency bands, these signals will show similar time–energy distributions. Therefore, the attenuation ratios should be similar across different frequency bands, except for frequency-variable weights. Nevertheless, the frequency-variable weights for different frequency bands can be obtained by benchmarking against the time–energy distributions of low-frequency information because the loss of low-frequency information is relatively insignificant. In this light, we obtained frequency-variable weights for different frequencies and established a stratal absorption compensation (SAC) model. The anisotropic basis of the shearlet enables nearly optimal representation of curved-shape seismic signals, and shearlets at different scales can represent signals for different frequency bands. Then, we combined the SAC model with the shearlet transform and established the new compensation method. As the signal and noise have different distributions in the shearlet domain, we selectively compensated the signals using a thresholding algorithm. Hence, it was possible to avoid noise enhancement. This is the prominent advantage of the proposed method over other compensation methods.     

Seismic channel edge detection using 3D shearlets—a study on synthetic and real channelised 3D seismic data

Automatic feature detection from seismic data is a demanding task in today's interpretation workstations. Channels are among important stratigraphic features in seismic data both due to their reservoir capability or drilling hazard potential. Shearlet transform as a multi‐scale and multi‐directional transformation is capable of detecting anisotropic singularities in two and higher dimensional data. Channels occur as edges in seismic data, which can be detected based on maximizing the shearlet coefficients through all sub‐volumes at the finest scale of decomposition. The detected edges may require further refinement through the application of a thinning methodology. In this study, a three‐dimensional, pyramid‐adapted, compactly supported shearlet transform was applied to synthetic and real channelised, three‐dimensional post‐stack seismic data in order to decompose the data into different scales and directions for the purpose of channel boundary detection. In order to be able to compare the edge detection results based on three‐dimensional shearlet transform with some famous gradient‐based edge detectors, such as Sobel and Canny, a thresholding scheme is necessary. In both synthetic and real data examples, the three‐dimensional shearlet edge detection algorithm outperformed Sobel and Canny operators even in the presence of Gaussian random noise.     

Inversion-based data-driven time-space domain random noise attenuation method

Conventional time-space domain and frequency-space domain prediction filtering methods assume that seismic data consists of two parts, signal and random noise. That is, the so-called additive noise model. However, when estimating random noise, it is assumed that random noise can be predicted from the seismic data by convolving with a prediction error filter. That is, the source-noise model. Model inconsistencies, before and after denoising, compromise the noise attenuation and signal-preservation performances of prediction filtering methods. Therefore, this study presents an inversion-based time-space domain random noise attenuation method to overcome the model inconsistencies. In this method, a prediction error filter (PEF), is first estimated from seismic data; the filter characterizes the predictability of the seismic data and adaptively describes the seismic data’s space structure. After calculating PEF, it can be applied as a regularized constraint in the inversion process for seismic signal from noisy data. Unlike conventional random noise attenuation methods, the proposed method solves a seismic data inversion problem using regularization constraint; this overcomes the model inconsistency of the prediction filtering method. The proposed method was tested on both synthetic and real seismic data, and results from the prediction filtering method and the proposed method are compared. The testing demonstrated that the proposed method suppresses noise effectively and provides better signal-preservation performance.     

基于数据增广和CNN的地震随机噪声压制

卷积神经网络(Convolutional Neural Network,CNN)是一种基于数据驱动的学习算法,简化了传统从特征提取到分类的两阶段式处理任务,被广泛应用于计算机科学的各个领域.在标注数据不足的地震数据去噪领域,CNN的推广应用受到限制.针对这一问题,本文提出了一种基于数据生成和增广的地震数据CNN去噪框架.对于合成数据,本文对无噪地震数据添加不同方差的高斯噪声,增广后构成训练集,实现基于小样本的CNN训练.对于实际地震数据,由于无法获得真实的干净数据和噪声来生成训练样本集,本文提出一种直接从无标签实际有噪数据生成标签数据集的方法.在所提出的方法中,我们利用目前已有的去噪方法从实际地震数据中分别获得估计干净数据和估计噪声,前者与未知的干净数据具有相似纹理,后者与实际噪声具有相似的概率分布.人工合成数据和实际数据实验结果表明,相较于F-X反褶积,BM3D和自适应频域滤波算法,本文方法能更好地压制随机噪声和保护有效信号.最后,本文采用神经网络可视化方法对去噪CNN的机理进行了探索,一定程度上解释了网络每一层的学习内容.     

Random noise attenuation using a structure-oriented weighted singular value decomposition

Singular value decomposition (SVD) is a useful method for random noise suppression in seismic data processing. A structure-oriented SVD (SOSVD) approach which incorporates structure prediction to the SVD filter is effcient in attenuating noise except distorting seismic events at faults and crossing points. A modified SOSVD approach using a weighted stack, called structure-oriented weighted SVD (SOWSVD), is proposed. In this approach, the SVD filter is used to attenuate noise for prediction traces of a primitive trace which are produced via the plane-wave prediction. A weighting function related to local similarity and distance between each prediction trace and the primitive trace is applied to the denoised prediction traces stacking. Both synthetic and field data examples suggest the SOWSVD performs better than the SOSVD in both suppressing random noise and preserving the information of the discontinuities for seismic data with crossing events and faults.

     

Noise suppression for microseismic data by non‐subsampled shearlet transform based on singular value decomposition

The existence of strong random noise in surface microseismic data may decrease the utility of these data. Non‐subsampled shearlet transform can effectively suppress noise by properly setting a threshold to the non‐subsampled shearlet transform coefficients. However, when the signal‐to‐noise ratio of data is low, the coefficients related to the noise are very close to the coefficients associated with signals in the non‐subsampled shearlet transform domain that the coefficients related to the noise will be retained and be treated as signals. Therefore, we need to minimise the overlapping coefficients before thresholding. In this paper, a singular value decomposition algorithm is introduced to the non‐subsampled shearlet transform coefficients, and low‐rank approximation reconstructs each non‐subsampled shearlet transform coefficient matrix in the singular value decomposition domain. The non‐subsampled shearlet transform coefficients of signals have bigger singular values than those of the random noise, which implies that the non‐subsampled shearlet transform coefficients can be well estimated by taking only a few largest singular values. Therefore, those properties of singular value decomposition may significantly help minimise overlapping of noise and signals coefficients in the non‐subsampled shearlet transform domain. Finally, the denoised microseismic data are obtained easily by giving a simple threshold to the reconstructed coefficient matrix. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated on both synthetic and field microseismic data. The experimental results illustrate that the proposed method can eliminate random noise and preserve signals of interest more effectively.     

基于Seislet-TV双正则化约束的地震随机噪声压制方法

人工地震数据总是受到随机噪声的干扰,地震数据时-空变的特性使得常规去噪方法处理效果并不理想,容易导致有效信号的损失.目前广泛应用的预测滤波类方法存在处理时变数据能力不足的问题.随着压缩感知理论的不断完善,稀疏变换阈值算法能够解决时变地震数据噪声压制问题,但是常规的稀疏变换方法,如傅里叶变换,小波变换等,并不是特殊针对地震数据设计的,很难提供地震数据最佳的压缩特征,同时,常规阈值算法容易导致去噪结果过于平滑.因此开发更加有效的时-空变地震数据信噪分离方法具有重要的工业价值.本文将地震数据信噪分离问题归纳为数学基追踪问题,在压缩感知理论框架下,利用特殊针对地震数据设计的VD-seislet稀疏变换方法,结合全变差(TV)算法,构建seislet-TV双正则化条件,并利用分裂Bregman迭代算法求解约束最优化问题,实现地震数据的有效信噪分离.通过理论模型和实际数据测试本文方法,并且与工业标准FXdecon方法进行比较,结果表明基于seislet-TV双正则化约束条件的迭代方法能够更加有效地保护时-空变地震信号,压制地震数据中的强随机噪声.     

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.     

基于f-x域流式预测滤波器的地震随机噪声衰减方法

随机噪声的影响在地震勘探中是不可避免的,常规的随机噪声压制方法在处理中往往会破坏具有时空变化特征的非平稳有效地震信号,影响地震数据的准确成像.当前油气勘探的目标已经转变为“两宽一高”,随着数据量的增大,对去噪方法的处理效率也提出了更高的要求.因此,开发高效的非平稳地震数据随机噪声压制方法具有重要意义.预测滤波技术广泛用于地震随机噪声的衰减,本文基于流式处理框架提出一种新的f-x域流式预测滤波方法,通过在频率域建立预测自回归方程,运用直接复数矩阵逆运算代替迭代算法求解非平稳滤波器系数,实现时空变地震同相轴预测,提高自适应预测滤波的计算效率.通过与工业标准的FXDECON方法和f-x域正则化非平稳自回归(RNA)方法进行对比,理论模型和实际数据的测试结果表明,提出的f-x域流式预测滤波方法能更好地平衡时空变有效信号保护、随机噪声压制和高效计算三者之间的关系,获得合理的处理效果.     

基于非稳态多项式拟合的地震噪声衰减方法研究(英文)

基于非稳态多项式拟合理论,针对地震数据中同相轴振幅变化这一特征,我们提出了一种地震噪声衰减的新方法。非稳态多项式拟合系数是时变的,通过整形正则化约束多项式拟和系数的光滑性,自适应的估计地震数据的相干分量。基于动校正后的共中心点道集(CMP)中地震信号的相干性,利用非稳态多项式拟合估计有效信号,从而衰减随机噪声。对于线性相干噪声,如地滚波,首先利用径向道变换(RadialTraceTransform,RTT)将地震数据变换到时间一视速度域,在时间—视速度域利用非稳态多项式拟合估计出相干噪声,然后减去相干噪声。该方法可以有效的估计振幅变化的相干分量,不需要相干分量振幅为常量的假设。模拟和实际资料处理结果表明,与传统的稳态多项式拟合和低切滤波相比,该方法可以更为有效的衰减地震噪声,同时保真了地震有效信号。     

空间局部加权回归自适应TFPF

时频峰值滤波(TFPF)算法是一种非常有效的去噪方法.但是传统的TFPF采用的单一窗长,并且仅沿时间方向进行滤波,忽略了信号的空间信息,并且TFPF近似等效成一个时不变的低通滤波器,不能追踪快速变化的信号.针对这些问题,引入空间局部加权回归自适应TFPF(SLWR-ATFPF).鉴于随机噪声在各个位置的方向随机性,以及有效信号在各个位置的方向确定性,首先利用空间局部加权回归(SLWR),对含噪信号进行空间加权,从而使加权之后的信号包含空间信息.然后,再引入凸集和Viterbi的思想,对空间加权之后的信号进行自适应滤波.从而,完成时空域二维自适应滤波.将SLWR-ATFPF应用于合成记录和实际的共炮点记录,实验结果表明,改进的方法与原算法相比,能够在压制低信噪比(SNR)随机噪声的同时更好地保留有效信号.     

基于正交多项式变换的CMP动校正道集随机噪声压制

本文提出了一种新的基于正交多项式变换来压制动校正后CMP道集上随机噪声的方法,将地震资料经过正交多项式变换,建立正交多项式系数谱,该谱描述了地震资料在正交多项式域的能量分布,可以较好地分离有效波和随机噪声,相对于固定阶次的基于正交多项式变换压制噪声的方法,所提出的方法根据能量随阶次变化的规律,自适应确定表达有效信号的正交多项式阶次,既提高了信号和噪声的分离效果,又有效地保护了地震信号中的AVO信息,对人工合成数据和实际资料的处理结果表明了所提出方法的有效性.     

丘陵地带地震资料随机噪声压制新技术:高阶加权阈值函数的Shearlet变换

随着山地和丘陵地震勘探环境的复杂化,传统的消噪方法已经难以有效地压制地震记录中的随机噪声.Shearlet变换是一种新的多尺度多方向的时频分析方法,具有良好的稀疏表示特性,并且在每个尺度进行方向分解,非常适合用于地震信号随机噪声的压制.但是传统的Shearlet变换去噪方法采用的是硬阈值,在抑制随机噪声的同时也消除了很多有效信号,使得去噪之后的地震资料出现虚假的同相轴,为了解决这一问题我们提出高阶加权阈值函数.高阶加权阈值函数不但整体上连续性较好,而且克服了硬阈值函数存在剧烈的变化的缺点以及软阈值在处理较大Shearlet系数总存在恒定偏差的问题,同时保留了传统的软硬阈值函数的优点.实验结果表明这种基于高阶加权阈值函数的Shearlet变换去噪的方法,可以有效的消除模拟地震信号和实际丘陵地带地震信号中的随机噪声,同时很好的保留有效信号的幅度.     

基于SW统计量的自适应时频峰值滤波压制地震勘探随机噪声研究

由于金属矿区地震记录中随机噪声性质复杂且信噪比低,常规降噪方法难以达到预期的滤波效果.时频峰值滤波(TFPF)方法是实现低信噪比地震勘探记录中随机噪声压制的有效方法,但其在复杂地震勘探随机噪声下时窗参数优化问题仍难以解决.本文充分利用地震勘探噪声的统计特性,结合Shapiro-Wilk(SW)统计量辨识地震勘探记录中的微弱有效信号,提出基于SW统计量的自适应时频峰值滤波降噪方法(S-TFPF).在S-TFPF方案中,对于有效信号集中区,S-TFPF方法根据信号频率特征,选择有利于信号保持的较短时窗长度;对于噪声集中区,按噪声方差自适应增加时窗长度,增强随机噪声压制能力.S-TFPF应用于合成记录和共炮点记录的滤波结果表明,与传统时频峰值滤波方法相比,S-TFPF方法可以有效抑制低信噪比地震勘探记录中的随机噪声,更好地恢复出同相轴.     

低信噪比地震资料FDOC-seislet变换阈值消噪方法研究

地震数据本质上是时变的,不仅有效同相轴表现出确定性信号的时变特征,而且复杂地表和构造条件以及深部探测环境总是引入时变的非平稳随机噪声.标准的频率-空间域预测滤波只适合压制平面波信号假设下的平稳随机噪声,而处理非平稳地震随机噪声时,需要将数据体分割为小窗口进行分析,但效果不够理想,而传统非预测类随机噪声压制方法往往适应性不高,因此开发能够保护地震信号时变特征的随机噪声压制方法具有重要的工业价值.压缩感知是近年出现的一个新的采样理论,通过开发信号的稀疏特性,已经在地震数据处理中的数据插值以及噪声压制中得到了应用.本文系统地分析了压缩感知理论框架下的地震随机噪声压制问题,建立了阈值消噪的数学反演目标函数;针对时变有效信息具有的可压缩性,利用有限差分算法求解炮检距连续方程,构建有限差分炮检距连续预测算子(FDOC),在seislet变换框架下,提出一种新的快速稀疏变换域———FDOC-seislet变换,实现地震数据的高度稀疏表征;结合非平稳随机噪声不可压缩的特征,提出了一种整形迭代消噪方法,该方法是一种广义的迭代收缩阈值(IST)算法,在无法计算稀疏变换伴随算子的条件下,仍然能够对强噪声环境中的时变有效信息进行有效恢复.通过对模型数据和实际数据的处理,验证了FDOC-seislet稀疏变换域随机噪声迭代压制方法能够在保护复杂构造地震波信息的前提下,有效地衰减原始数据中的强振幅随机噪声干扰.     

Spatially constrained attenuation compensation in the mixed domain

Seismic attenuation compensation is a spectrum-broadening technique for enhancing the resolution of non-stationary seismic data. The single-trace attenuation compensation algorithms ignore the prior information that the seismic reflection events are generally continuous along seismic traces, thus, the compensated result may have poor spatial continuity and low signal-to-noise ratio. To address this problem, we extend the single-trace approaches to the multi-trace algorithms and furthermore propose a multi-trace attenuation compensation with a spatial constraint. The frequency-space prediction filters are the key to construct this spatial regularization. We test the effectiveness of the proposed spatially constrained attenuation compensation algorithm by applying both synthetic and field data examples. Synthetic data tests indicate that the proposed multi-trace attenuation compensation approach can provide a better compensated result than single-trace attenuation compensation algorithm in terms of suppressing noise amplification and guaranteeing structural continuities. Field data applications further confirm its stability and practicality to improve seismic resolution.     

Separation method for multi-source blended seismic data

Multi-source seismic technology is an efficient seismic acquisition method that requires a group of blended seismic data to be separated into single-source seismic data for subsequent processing. The separation of blended seismic data is a linear inverse problem. According to the relationship between the shooting number and the simultaneous source number of the acquisition system, this separation of blended seismic data is divided into an easily determined or overdetermined linear inverse problem and an underdetermined linear inverse problem that is difficult to solve. For the latter, this paper presents an optimization method that imposes the sparsity constraint on wavefields to construct the object function of inversion, and the problem is solved by using the iterative thresholding method. For the most extremely underdetermined separation problem with single-shooting and multiple sources, this paper presents a method of pseudo-deblending with random noise filtering. In this method, approximate common shot gathers are received through the pseudo-deblending process, and the random noises that appear when the approximate common shot gathers are sorted into common receiver gathers are eliminated through filtering methods. The separation methods proposed in this paper are applied to three types of numerical simulation data, including pure data without noise, data with random noise, and data with linear regular noise to obtain satisfactory results. The noise suppression effects of these methods are sufficient, particularly with single-shooting blended seismic data, which verifies the effectiveness of the proposed methods.     

基于Curvelet变换的地震资料信噪分离技术

在地震资料中,噪声干扰严重影响了有效信号的提取,为此必须进行信噪分离处理.本文提出一种基于Curvelet变换和KL变换相结合的软硬阈值折衷处理方法.首先对地震数据进行Curvelet变换,然后对各尺度系数选取适当阈值压制噪声干扰,再利用KL变换提取数据中的相干有效信号,最后重构得到去噪后的记录.经合成记录和实际地震资料处理实验证明,该方法与小波变换法相比较,更能有效进行信噪分离,提高地震剖面信噪比和分辨率.     

Comparisons of wavelets, contourlets and curvelets in seismic denoising

Seismic synthetic records represent wave-front components which contain abundant damageable directional information about important geologic substances. However, the information is often polluted by random noises. Unlike coherent noise, random noise may be incoherent in space and time, and sometimes unpredictable. One of the main tasks in seismic denoising is to eliminate the random noise and useless interferential wave components while preserving or recovering the important seismic features. In this paper, we investigate multi-resolution (MR) methods including wavelets, contourlets and curvelets for seismic denoising of random noise. Discussions and interpretations for these methods are presented in detail to evaluate their performances. Furthermore, a combination scheme of wavelets and curvelets is applied to seismic random denoising by solving an l₁ norm optimization problem. The combined scheme aims at taking advantage of the respective merits of wavelets and curvelets in order to obtain better effects. Experimental results indicate that the directional wavelets such as contourlets and curvelets are prominent for seismic profiles containing textural features and the combination method shows promising performances than individual transforms.