Short-time homomorphic wavelet estimation
This addresses wavelet estimation for seismic analysis, but it is incremental as it builds on existing homomorphic deconvolution techniques.
The paper tackled the problem of wavelet estimation in seismic methods by combining classical homomorphic analysis with log-spectral averaging using a short-term Fourier transform, demonstrating good performance on synthetic and real data.
Successful wavelet estimation is an essential step for seismic methods like impedance inversion, analysis of amplitude variations with offset and full waveform inversion. Homomorphic deconvolution has long intrigued as a potentially elegant solution to the wavelet estimation problem. Yet a successful implementation has proven difficult. Associated disadvantages like phase unwrapping and restrictions of sparsity in the reflectivity function limit its application. We explore short-time homomorphic wavelet estimation as a combination of the classical homomorphic analysis and log-spectral averaging. The introduced method of log-spectral averaging using a short-term Fourier transform increases the number of sample points, thus reducing estimation variances. We apply the developed method on synthetic and real data examples and demonstrate good performance.