Spectral decomposition of seismic data with continuous-wavelet transform

Geophysics ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. P19-P25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satish Sinha ◽  
Partha S. Routh ◽  
Phil D. Anno ◽  
John P. Castagna

This paper presents a new methodology for computing a time-frequency map for nonstationary signals using the continuous-wavelet transform (CWT). The conventional method of producing a time-frequency map using the short time Fourier transform (STFT) limits time-frequency resolution by a predefined window length. In contrast, the CWT method does not require preselecting a window length and does not have a fixed time-frequency resolution over the time-frequency space. CWT uses dilation and translation of a wavelet to produce a time-scale map. A single scale encompasses a frequency band and is inversely proportional to the time support of the dilated wavelet. Previous workers have converted a time-scale map into a time-frequency map by taking the center frequencies of each scale. We transform the time-scale map by taking the Fourier transform of the inverse CWT to produce a time-frequency map. Thus, a time-scale map is converted into a time-frequency map in which the amplitudes of individual frequencies rather than frequency bands are represented. We refer to such a map as the time-frequency CWT (TFCWT). We validate our approach with a nonstationary synthetic example and compare the results with the STFT and a typical CWT spectrum. Two field examples illustrate that the TFCWT potentially can be used to detect frequency shadows caused by hydrocarbons and to identify subtle stratigraphic features for reservoir characterization.

Author(s):  
Jean Baptiste Tary ◽  
Roberto Henry Herrera ◽  
Mirko van der Baan

The continuous wavelet transform (CWT) has played a key role in the analysis of time-frequency information in many different fields of science and engineering. It builds on the classical short-time Fourier transform but allows for variable time-frequency resolution. Yet, interpretation of the resulting spectral decomposition is often hindered by smearing and leakage of individual frequency components. Computation of instantaneous frequencies, combined by frequency reassignment, may then be applied by highly localized techniques, such as the synchrosqueezing transform and ConceFT, in order to reduce these effects. In this paper, we present the synchrosqueezing transform together with the CWT and illustrate their relative performances using four signals from different fields, namely the LIGO signal showing gravitational waves, a ‘FanQuake’ signal displaying observed vibrations during an American football game, a seismic recording of the M w 8.2 Chiapas earthquake, Mexico, of 8 September 2017, followed by the Irma hurricane, and a volcano-seismic signal recorded at the Popocatépetl volcano showing a tremor followed by harmonic resonances. These examples illustrate how high-localization techniques improve analysis of the time-frequency information of time-varying signals. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Redundancy rules: the continuous wavelet transform comes of age’.


2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (05) ◽  
pp. 331-339
Author(s):  
S. M. Debbal ◽  
F. Bereksi-Reguig

This paper presents the analysis and comparisons of the short time Fourier transform (STFT) and the continuous wavelet transform techniques (CWT) to the four sounds analysis (S1, S2, S3 and S4). It is found that the spectrogram short-time Fourier transform (STFT), cannot perfectly detect the internals components of these sounds that the continuous wavelet transform. However, the short time Fourier transform can provide correctly the extent of time and frequency of these four sounds. Thus, the STFT and the CWT techniques provide more features and characteristics of the sounds that will hemp physicians to obtain qualitative and quantitative measurements of the time-frequency characteristics.


Geophysics ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. WA137-WA142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satish Sinha ◽  
Partha Routh ◽  
Phil Anno

Instantaneous spectral properties of seismic data — center frequency, root-mean-square frequency, bandwidth — often are extracted from time-frequency spectra to describe frequency-dependent rock properties. These attributes are derived using definitions from probability theory. A time-frequency spectrum can be obtained from approaches such as short-time Fourier transform (STFT) or time-frequency continuous-wavelet transform (TFCWT). TFCWT does not require preselecting a time window, which is essential in STFT. The TFCWT method converts a scalogram (i.e., time-scale map) obtained from the continuous-wavelet transform (CWT) into a time-frequency map. However, our method includes mathematical formulas that compute the instantaneous spectral attributes from the scalogram (similar to those computed from the TFCWT), avoiding conversion into a time-frequency spectrum. Computation does not require a predefined window length because it is based on the CWT. This technique optimally decomposes a multiscale signal. For nonstationary signal analysis, spectral decomposition from [Formula: see text] has better time-frequency resolution than STFT, so the instantaneous spectral attributes from CWT are expected to be better than those from STFT.


2004 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
pp. 257-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. DEBBAL ◽  
F. BEREKSI-REGUIG ◽  
A. MEZIANE TANI

This paper is concerned with a synthesis study of the fast Fourier transform (FFT) and the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) in analysing the phonocardiogram signal (PCG). It is shown that the continuous wavelet transform provides enough features of the PCG signals that will help clinics to obtain qualitative and quantitative measurements of the time-frequency PCG signal characteristics and consequently aid to diagnosis. Similary, it is shown that the frequency content of such a signal can be determined by the FFT without difficulties.


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (02) ◽  
pp. 2050021
Author(s):  
Yanchun Xu ◽  
Haiting Xia ◽  
Chao Tan ◽  
Zhenhua Li ◽  
Lu Mi

Traditional time-frequency methods for partial discharge (PD) de-noising have some limitations such as low time-frequency resolution, single de-noising type and poor readability. In this paper, a novel de-noising algorithm based on synchro-squeezed continuous wavelet transform (CWT) is adopted to filter out narrowband noise and white noise. The synchro-squeezed CWT algorithm is designed to redistribute the time-frequency domain and to distinguish the signal from the noise carefully as a high-rate time-frequency analysis. High-order statistics is employed to pre-process the polluted PD signal. The generalized cross-validation (GCV) threshold is combined with the adaptive trimmed threshold of synchro-squeezing (SS) domain to deal with the subsequent signals. The proposed algorithm can effectively suppress two kinds of noise, and the signal distortion is lower.


Author(s):  
Jesús Ponce de León ◽  
José Ramón Beltrán ◽  
Fernando Beltrán

In this work, an improvement of the Complex Wavelet Additive Synthesis (CWAS) algorithm is presented. This algorithm is based on a discrete version of the Complex Continuous Wavelet Transform (CCWT) which analyzes the input signal in a frame-to-frame approach and under variable frequency resolution per octave. After summarizing several Time-Frequency Distributions (TFD), concretely the standard Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT), the Pseudo Wigner–Ville Distribution (PWVD), reassignment and complex wavelets, a comparative study of the accuracy in the instantaneous frequency (IF) estimation is shown. The comparative study includes three different signal processing tools (based on the summarized TFD): the Time-Frequency Toolbox (TFTB) of François Auger, the High Resolution Spectrographic Routines (HRSR) of Sean Fulop and the proposed CWAS algorithm. A set of eight synthetic signals have been analyzed using six different methods: the regular STFT spectrogram, the PWVD, their corresponding reassigned versions, the Nelson crossed spectrum method and finally the Complex Continuous Wavelet Transform (CCWT). Finally, two- and three-dimensional Time-Frequency representations of the IF provided by the CWAS algorithm are presented.


Geophysics ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 77 (5) ◽  
pp. V143-V167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles I. Puryear ◽  
Oleg N. Portniaguine ◽  
Carlos M. Cobos ◽  
John P. Castagna

An inversion-based algorithm for computing the time-frequency analysis of reflection seismograms using constrained least-squares spectral analysis is formulated and applied to modeled seismic waveforms and real seismic data. The Fourier series coefficients are computed as a function of time directly by inverting a basis of truncated sinusoidal kernels for a moving time window. The method resulted in spectra that have reduced window smearing for a given window length relative to the discrete Fourier transform irrespective of window shape, and a time-frequency analysis with a combination of time and frequency resolution that is superior to the short time Fourier transform and the continuous wavelet transform. The reduction in spectral smoothing enables better determination of the spectral characteristics of interfering reflections within a short window. The degree of resolution improvement relative to the short time Fourier transform increases as window length decreases. As compared with the continuous wavelet transform, the method has greatly improved temporal resolution, particularly at low frequencies.


Author(s):  
Yovinia Carmeneja Hoar Siki ◽  
Natalia Magdalena Rafu Mamulak

Time-Frequency Analysis on Gong Timor Music has an important role in the application of signal-processing music such as tone tracking and music transcription or music signal notation. Some of Gong characters is heard by different ways of forcing Gong himself, such as how to play Gong based on the Player’s senses, a set of Gong, and by changing the tempo of Gong instruments. Gong's musical signals have more complex analytical criteria than Western music instrument analysis. This research uses a Gong instrument and two notations; frequency analysis of Gong music frequency compared by the Short-time Fourier Transform (STFT), Overlap Short-time Fourier Transform (OSTFT), and Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) method. In the STFT and OSTFT methods, time-frequency analysis Gong music is used with different windows and hop size while CWT method uses Morlet wavelet. The results show that the CWT is better than the STFT methods.


2019 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
pp. 01007
Author(s):  
Asad Taimur ◽  
Akinniyi Akinsunmade ◽  
Sylwia Tomecka-Suchon ◽  
Fahad Mehmood

Routine seismic data processing does not always meet the quantitative interpreters’ expectations especially in areas like Badin, where prospective thin bed B – sand interval is ambiguous throughout the seismic volume. Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) provides detailed description of seismic signal in both time and frequency without compromising on window length and a fixed time-frequency resolution over time-frequency spectrum. We present enhancement of seismic data for effective interpretation using the bandwidth extension technique. Implementing bandwidth extension, the dominant frequency increases from 18 Hz to 30 Hz and the frequency content boosted from 40 Hz to 60 Hz. Noise inclusion by the technique was suppressed by F-XY predictive filter and F-XY deconvolution with edge preserve smoothing. Phase and spectral balancing were applied to partial angle stacks to stabilize the phase rotation across the 3D survey, particularly for far offset stack. Frequency was balanced using surface consistent spectrum balancing, and subjected to trace scaling for amplitudes balance and preservation. Results of the techniques yielded unique improvement on the data resolution and subtle information about the thin sand beds were better delineated. Tuning thickness analysis reveals the usefulness of bandwidth extension, with an increase of 30% in the resolving power of thin beds.


2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bao Liu ◽  
Sherman Riemenschneider ◽  
Zuowei Shen

This paper presents a fast adaptive time–frequency analysis method for dealing with the signals consisting of stationary components and transients, which are encountered very often in practice. It is developed based on the short-time Fourier transform but the window bandwidth varies along frequency adaptively. The method therefore behaves more like an adaptive continuous wavelet transform. We use B-splines as the window functions, which have near optimal time–frequency localization, and derive a fast algorithm for adaptive time–frequency representation. The method is applied to the analysis of vibration signals collected from rotating machines with incipient localized defects. The results show that it performs obviously better than the short-time Fourier transform, continuous wavelet transform, and several other most studied time–frequency analysis techniques for the given task.


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