Matching-Pursuit-Based Spatial-Trace Time-Frequency Peak Filtering for Seismic Random Noise Attenuation

Time-frequency peak filtering (TFPF) is an effective seismic random noise attenuation method at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). However, the conventional TFPF is biased for seismic signals with high frequency. We propose a spatial-trace TFPF (ST-TFPF) algorithm for reducing random noise in seismic data and simultaneously the bias of TFPF. The proposed method takes into consideration the lateral coherence between the neighboring traces as constraint of TFPF. To reduce bias, this algorithm takes TFPF along seismic events. The first stage of the proposed method preliminarily identifies the position of seismic reflection events using matching pursuit. The second stage consists of analyzing time delay of neighboring traces to construct spatial traces along seismic events. The last stage of algorithm consists of encoding seismic data along the constructed spatial traces and detecting the pseudo-Wigner-Ville distribution peaks of the encoded signals to reduce random noise. We assess our method on the synthetic and field data. The results illustrate that the ST-TFPF extends the signal preserving ability of TFPF in a wider range of window length at low SNR. Furthermore, comparison with conventional TFPF and wavelet denoising method shows that our method outperforms the two methods in random noise attenuation and seismic signal enhancement.