A Novel Approach for Seismic Time-Frequency Analysis Based on High-Order Synchrosqueezing Transform

Time-frequency analysis always plays a central role in the field of seismic processing due to the advantage in characterizing nonstationary signals. In this letter, we present a novel technique for seismic time-frequency analysis based on the high-order synchrosqueezing transform, which obtains more accurate instantaneous frequencies by using the higher order approximations for both amplitude and phase in order to achieve a highly energy-concentrated time-frequency representation. A synthetic example is employed to demonstrate the validity of the proposed method in sharpening time-frequency representation. Application on field data example further proves its potential in enhancing time-frequency resolution and delineating stratigraphic characteristics with higher precision and renders that this technique is promising for seismic data analysis.