Review of instantaneous, wavelet, and weighted seismic attributes along with a computational library

Abstract

Complex trace analysis is the most widely used method for transforming post-stack seismic traces into a number of instantaneous seismic attributes which are used to make a variety of geological interpretations. Several useful interpretations require a combination of these attributes to be computed and displayed simultaneously which demand high performance and large memory resources. This paper reviews instantaneous, wavelet, and weighted average attributes and presents a digital signal processing library for their efficient computation by optimizing performance and memory.