Seismic depositional sequence characterization by using enhanced multi-channel variational mode decomposition
For the seismic stratigraphy, a key issue is distinguishing the characteristics of seismic reflections generated by geological events with different scales, which in turn assists the sequence stratigraphic interpretation. The data-driven signal decomposition approaches, like variational mode decomposition (VMD) and multi-channel variational mode decomposition (MVMD), can utilize waveform similarity to decompose seismic data into several IMFs. Unfortunately, it is a hard task to define the number of IMFs. To overcome the shortcoming of the previous works, we constructed an enhanced multi-channel variational mode decomposition (EMVMD) and then proposed a workflow to decompose seismic data. We first explained the relationship between the IMFs and structures with different scales. Then, we proposed a method to set the number of IMFs by introduce the contraction operator mapping (COM) and the scale-space representation (SSR). Finally, we provided a workflow and applied it to synthetic and field data to identify seismic sequence stratigraphy boundaries. Synthetic and field data examples show that our workflow preserves lateral continuity and precisely extracts IMFs caused by depositional sequences with different geologic scales, facilitating the interpretation of subtle depositional patterns.