Spectral Decomposition and Attributes for Evaluating Seismically Thin Layers
| dc.contributor.advisor | Castagna, John P. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Chesnokov, Evgeni M. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Stewart, Robert R. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Martinez, Alex | |
| dc.creator | Zhou, Jian 1982- | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-14T16:44:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-09-14T16:44:16Z | |
| dc.date.created | May 2017 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-05 | |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2017 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-09-14T16:44:17Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The reflectivity series and resulting waveform for a generalized-simple layer (arbitrary reflection coefficients on top and base) can be separated into unique even and odd components, each having a different tuning curve. Amplitudes at peak frequency of pure-impulse pairs are independent of thickness, for either the original reflectivity, its odd, or even component. For seismic data with a non-flat spectrum, dividing the data spectrum over some useable band by the wavelet spectrum results in amplitudes at peak frequency that are independent of thickness. Comparing peak-frequency amplitudes for even and odd components to that of the total waveform, provides clues as to the nature of the layering. Correlations between spectral-isofrequency-amplitude traces (time-varying-spectral amplitude at individual frequencies) provide a means of finding frequency notches induced by layer reflectivity. Isofrequency-amplitude traces tend to be strongly correlated amongst frequencies at spectral nulls; and amongst those that are not at those frequency notches. Spectral-principal-component-amplitude attributes take advantage of this property, and are indicative of layer thickness. With proper trace scaling and spectral balancing, spectral-PC amplitudes are independent of layer’s reflection coefficients. Layers with only odd and even pair reflection coefficients have distinctive-spectral-principal component to thickness relationships in synthetic-wedge models. Three spectral-PC attributes individually delineate amplitudes from: 1) an isolated reflection not affected by tuning; 2) tuning of an even reflection pair; and 3) tuning of an odd reflection pair in a 3-D-synthetic-channel model. As with the synthetic model, a good attribute versus true-reservoir-thickness relationship is seen in real seismic and well data from the Hoover field in the Gulf of Mexico. | |
| dc.description.department | Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of | |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | born digital | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Portions of this document appear in: Zhou*, Jian, Arnold Oyem, and John P. Castagna. "An algorithm for frequency-dependent principal component spectral analysis." In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2014, pp. 2636-2640. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2014. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10657/4598 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
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| dc.subject | Spectral decomposition | |
| dc.subject | Generalized simple layer | |
| dc.subject | Seismic thickness delineation | |
| dc.title | Spectral Decomposition and Attributes for Evaluating Seismically Thin Layers | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Thesis | |
| thesis.degree.college | College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | |
| thesis.degree.department | Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Geophysics | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Houston | |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy |