Philippe Steeghs and Guy G. Drijkoningen.
Time-frequency analysis of seismic sequences.
Proceedings of the 65th SEG Meeting, 1995.

Abstract: Reflection patterns play an important role in seismic sequence 
stratigraphy, therefore making their quantitative description 
essential for the construction and validation of sequence 
stratigraphic models from seismic data. The characteristics of a 
seismic reflection pattern can be elicited from the data by 
representing the data as a joint function of time and frequency. 
Developments in the field of time-frequency analysis have led 
to t-f representations with better resolution than can be 
obtained with classical methods for local frequency analysis. 
This justifies a study of the application of these new 
representations to the analysis of seismic data. Some examples 
of the t-f representation of the seismic response of layered 
sequences are given. They clearly show the contribution of the 
stratigraphic sequence to the spectral content of the data. 
The construction of a sequence stratigraphic model from a 
t-f representation is demonstrated with a field data  
example where we match a pattern that was observed in the 
data to a sequence model.