Super-Resolution Optimal Basic Wavelet Transform and Its Application in Thin-Bed Thickness Characterization

Continuous wavelet transform (CWT) is often used to extract the peak frequency attribute for characterizing the thin-bed thickness. Good joint time–frequency (TF) resolution is beneficial for the extraction of peak frequency. However, due to Heisenberg’s uncertain principle, the time and frequency resolution of CWT cannot be obtained simultaneously. In this article, combining the adaptive superlet transform and the optimal basic wavelet (OBW), a super-resolution OBW transform (SROBWT) is proposed to obtain the best joint TF resolution. The OBW matching the seismic wavelet is constructed as a basic wavelet of the adaptive superlet transform. Here, taking the best joint TF resolution of the seismic wavelet as the target, a parameter selection method is proposed for the adaptive superlet transform. Furthermore, based on the proposed SROBWT and wedge model, a workflow is proposed to characterize the thin-bed thickness. The synthetic and field seismic data are employed to demonstrate the validity of the proposed methods. All the corresponding results show that the SROBWT has a better joint TF resolution than the conventional methods and the proposed workflow can correctly characterize the spatial variation of the thin-bed thickness, which is beneficial for further sediment sources analysis and reservoir prediction.