Wavelet Transform Teager-Kaiser Energy – A Seismic Attribute Applied to Reveal Geological Features

ansform Teager-Kaiser Energy – A Seismic Attribute Applied to Reveal Geological Features M.C. Matos* (Instituto Militar de Engenharia) D.C. Silva (PUC-Rio) & P.R.S. Johann (Petrobras) SUMMARY A new method to estimate the instantaneous seismic traces energy is presented here. We propose to use the Teager-Kaiser energy associated with wavelet transform to generate a joint time-frequency representation which can be used as a nonlinear energy tracking of the seismic waves. The method was applied to detect important geological marks and reservoir zones on synthetic seismic traces from well logs. It was also applied to wedge models and has shown