oa Shaping the Wavelet

Wavelets have been widely used in seismic data processing and interpretation for different purposes such as deconvolution, well ties and acoustic inversion, and data compression. Wavelet extraction methods roughly fall into two categories: statistical methods that use seismic data only, and deterministic (or semi-deterministic) methods in which well log data is utilized. We propose a new deterministic technique that may be more stable and offers better results than the traditional wavelet extraction methods currently being used.