Analytic minimum entropy deconvolution

The standard model of the reflection seismogram assumes an impulsive, scalar, reflectivity series convolved with a seismic wavelet. Under certain, not unlikely, conditions a reflection coefficient can become complex and the resulting seismogram may be shown to contain phase‐shifted wavelets. When this is the case, scalar deconvolution approaches fail. To overcome this problem, Levy and Oldenburg (1982, this issue) have proposed a technique based on the analytic signal formulation. We couple the Levy and Oldenburg approach with a complex version of the minimum entropy algorithm and apply this new technique to synthetic and real examples.