Date of Award
2016
Document Type
Open Access Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Geophysics (MS)
Administrative Home Department
Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
Advisor 1
Wayne D. Pennington
Advisor 2
Roohollah Askari
Committee Member 1
Roger M. Turpening
Abstract
We evaluate the performance of the Margrave deconvolution and spectral ratio methods using the Gabor, S-, and modified S transforms in highly attenuating media, where the quality factor changes with depth dramatically. Our results substantiate that the modified S-transform deconvolution is more robust in terms of generating fewer artifacts and providing better estimates of reflectivities than the Gabor transform. The results also show that using the modified S-transform in the spectral ratio method produces better Q estimates than the S-transform and the Fourier transform that is conventionally used in the spectral ratio method. This improvement in the estimates of reflectivities and Q using the modified S-transform is due to the enhancement of the time-frequency decomposition obtained by substituting the frequency in the Gaussian window with a linear frequency function. The coefficients of this linear function control the time frequency localization by expanding the Gaussian window at low frequencies and tightening it at high frequencies, in turn providing a better time-frequency decomposition. We demonstrate the efficiency of the modified S-transform deconvolution and Q estimation through the analysis of both synthetic and field data.
Recommended Citation
Djeffal, Adnan, "ENHANCEMENT OF MARGRAVE DECONVOLUTION AND Q ESTIMATION IN HIGHLY ATTENUATING MEDIA USING THE MODIFIED S-TRANSFORM", Open Access Master's Thesis, Michigan Technological University, 2016.