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Principal Components Analysis of Spectral Components (Principal Components Analysis) Hao Guo, Kurt J. Marfurt* and Jianlei Liu Hao Guo Allied Geophysical Laboratories, University of Houston hguo2@uh.edu Kurt J. Marfurt Allied Geophysical Laboratories, University of Houston kmarfurt@.uh.edu Jianlei Liu Chevron Energy Technology Company, Houston, Texas jianlei.liu@chevron.com Date of submission: 7/2/2007 1

ABSTRACT Spectral decomposition methods help illuminate lateral changes in porosity and thin bed thickness. For broad-band data, an interpreter may generate 80 or more amplitude and phase spectral components spanning the useable seismic bandwidth at 1 Hz intervals. Most of these images contain redundant information. The most common means of displaying spectral amplitude components is by simply animating through them. By observing how bright and dim areas of the response move laterally with increasing frequency, a skilled interpreter can determine whether a channel or other stratigraphic feature of interest is thickening or thinning. Spectral phase components are less commonly used but are particularly sensitive to subtle faults and changes in the location of a high or low impedance stringer within a formation of fixed thickness. We use principal component analysis to reduce the multiplicity of our spectral data into a smaller, more manageable number of components. By construction, each principal component is mathematically orthogonal to other components. In addition the importance of each principal component is proportional to its corresponding eigenvalue. The first principal component represents the most common spectral variation seen along an interpreted horizon. The second principal component best represents that part of the spectrum not represented by the first principal component, and so on. Later principle components with smaller eigenvalues typically represent random noise. Given typical depositional processes, principal components are therefore ideally suited to identify geologic features that give rise to anomalous spectra. By mapping the three largest principal components against red, green, and blue, we can represent more than 80% of our spectral information with a single colored image. We apply and validate this workflow to 2

a broad band data volume containing channels draining an unconformity acquired over the Central Basin Platform, Texas, U.S.A. 3

INTRODUCTION Spectral decomposition of seismic data is a recently-introduced interpretation tool that aids in the identification of hydrocarbons, classification of facies and the calibration of thin-bed thickness. Whether based on the Discrete Fourier Transform (Partyka et al., 1999), wavelet transform (Castagna et al., 2003), or S-transform (Matos et al., 2005), spectral decomposition typically generates significantly more output data than input data, presenting challenges in communicating these data to other team members. Typically, an interpreter may generate 80 or more spectral components spanning the useable seismic bandwidth at 1 Hz intervals. With so much data available, the key issue for interpretation is to develop an effective way for data representation and reduction. The most common means of displaying these components is by simply animating through them to manually determine which single frequency best delineates an anomaly of interest. We illustrate this process for the phantom horizon slice through the seismic amplitude volume 66 ms above the Atoka unconformity from a survey acquired over the Central Basin Platform, TX, U.S.A. (Figure 1). We compute 85 spectral components ranging from 5 Hz to 90 Hz using a matched pursuit technique described by Liu and Marfurt (2007b). Figure 2 shows representative corresponding phantom horizon slices at 10 Hz intervals. By observing how bright and dim areas of the response move laterally with increasing frequency, a skilled interpreter can determine whether a channel or other stratigraphic feature of interest is thickening or thinning. The images vary gradually with frequency, for example, the thinner upstream portions of the channel indicated by the magenta arrows in Figure 1 are better delineated on the 40-60 Hz components 4

diplayed in Figures 2d-f, while the thicker downstream portions of the channel indicated by the yellow arrows in Figure 1 are better delineated by the 20-40 Hz components displayed in Figures 2b-d. After initial interpretational analysis, we may be able to limit our display to only those frequency components most important to the task at hand (Fahmy et al., 2005). For example, we may choose the 35-Hz component to map the channel if we observe that most channel beds have the maximum constructive inference at this frequency. However, in terms of conveying information of the spectral variation from the data space, only a small portion of the spectral variation is displayed (1 out of a possible 86 albeit redundant spectral components). Furthermore, while scanning works well for choosing the best frequency for a given horizon, it can become impractical when trying to determine the best frequency for multiple spectral component volumes. Besides interpreters should be aware that the spectral decomposition algorithm also outputs the phase spectrum corresponding to each amplitude spectrum. Figure 3 shows the corresponding phase spectra to the amplitude spectra shown in Figure 2. The phase images in Figure 3 are not easy to interpret compared with those in Figure 2 and thus implicitly the interpreter chose to ignore the phase spectrum information during the interpretation. We can reduce the amount of images to be scanned by the use of color stacking (e.g. Liu and Marfurt, 2007a; Stark, 2005). In this workflow, we plot one component against red, a second against green, and a third against blue. Figure 4 shows RGB images of different frequency combinations. Figure 4a is designed to accentuate the spectral variation in the low frequency ranges, Figure 4b is designed to accentuate the spectral variation in the middle frequency ranges and Figure 4c is designed to accentuate the spectral variation in the high frequency ranges. 5

Figures 4d-f shows three possible frequency combinations on the global frequency ranges. Compared with the images in Figure 2, the RGB images in Figure 4 show greater detail by combining multiple images. Simply stated, color stacking can triple the information than that conveyed by a single mono-frequency display. Considering the complexity of the spectra in the target horizon and the limit of color channels for display, each combination will only highlight certain parts of the whole spectral (more than 3/86 ~4% of the data because of the redundancy, but nowhere near 100%). Without further data reduction, representation of the original spectra reaches its limits. In theory, there are 86*85*84 RGB combinations for the interpreters to explore all the special variation. This situation motivates more efficient data reduction techniques. One way of data reduction is to generate synthetic attributes by first correlating the data against a predefined spectra (or basis functions) and plotting the correlation coefficient rather than the spectral components against color. In our Central Basin Platform example, we note that the 30-60-90 Hz combination is not strikingly different from the 20-50-80 Hz combination, implying that there are not significant changes over a 10 Hz range. Taking advantage of the redundancy or correlation in the original spectra, Stark (2005) defined three spectral basis functions that can be interpreted as simple averages and plotted the low frequency average against red, moderate frequency average against green, and highest frequency average against blue. Liu and Marfurt (2007a) provided a moderate improvement to Stark s (2005) gate or boxcar spectral basis function by applying raised cosines over user-defined spectral ranges to generate low, mid and high frequency color stack images. While in some cases the raised cosine function better approximates the cosine-like thin-bed tuning response, such approximations are 6

suboptimal; we may lose a considerable amount of frequency variability represented by using either Stark (2005) or Liu and Marfurt s (2007) three predefined basis functions. Furthermore, there is no simple measure of how much of the spectrum we do not represent. Instead of using predefined basis functions or spectra, we propose using principal component analysis to mathematically determine those frequency spectra that best represent the data variability, thereby segregating noise components and reducing the dimensionality of spectral components. We begin with a review of principal component analysis applied to real spectral amplitudes, and then show how it is readily generalized to represent complex spectra consisting of spectral magnitudes and phases. We apply our method to a data volume from the Central Basin Platform, TX, and show how we can represent 80% of the data variation using a color stack. We conclude by showing how we can filter out selected spectral variations and thereby enhance individual spectral images by eliminating interpreter-chosen components during the reconstruction. THEORY AND METHOD Principal component analysis finds a new set of orthogonal axes that have their origin at the data mean and that are rotated so that the data variance is maximized. The orthogonal axes are defined as eigenvectors in the original frequency domain, the projection of the original spectra onto these axes are called principal component (PC) bands and the amount of the total variation that each PC band can represent is quantified as its eigenvalue. Compared with the original 7

frequency components, PC bands are orthogonal (and thus uncorrelated) linear combinations of the original spectra. In theory, we calculate the same number of output PC bands as the input spectral components. The first PC band represents the largest percentage of data variance, the second PC band represents the second largest data variance, and so on. The last PC bands represent the uncorrelated part of the original spectral data, such as random noise. In the seismic spectral volumes we have analyzed we find that first 15 PC bands represent more than 95% of the total variance of the original data. The first 3 PC bands represent as much as 80% of the total variance of the data. Furthermore, we can reconstruct filtered spectra by using a subset of the PC spectra thereby providing a means of rejecting random noise. Principal component analysis of more than 100 spectral components is well-established in remote sensing interpretation software and workflows (Rodarmel and Shan, 2002). Principal component analysis of seismic attributes is also well-established, particularly with respect to seismic shape analysis (Coléou et al., 2003). Mathematically, principal component analysis is an effective statistical data-reduction method for data spaces in which the dimension is very large and each axis-variable is usually not orthogonal (that is, somewhat redundant) to each other. From an interpreter s point of view, principal component analysis applied to spectral components begins by determining which frequency spectrum (the 1 st principal component) best represents the entire data volume. The 2 nd principal component is that spectrum that best represents that part of the data not represented by the 1 st principal component. The 3 rd principal component is that spectrum that best represents that part of the data not represented by the first two principal components, and so on. If normalized by the total sum of all the eigenvalues, the eigenvalue 8

associated with each eigenvector represents the percentage of data that can be represented by its corresponding principal component. In general, the first principal component is a spectrum that represents over 50% of the data, the 2 nd principal component is a spectrum that represents another 15% to 25% of the data, while the third principal components is a spectrum that represents about 5% of the data. Together, these three components usually represent over 80% of the frequency variation seen in the data along this horizon slice. The eigenvectors with small eigenvalues contribute very little to the total variance of the whole data. These small eigenvectors often represent random seismic noise, acquisition footprint, and/or interpreter mispicks; by displaying only the larger principal components we implicitly remove such noise from our interpretation. Principal component analysis on spectral components consists of three steps. The first step is to assemble the covariance matrix by cross-correlating every frequency component, j={1,2,,j} with itself and all other frequency components (Figure 5), resulting in a square, J by J symmetrical, covariance matrix, C: jk N M C d = d, (1) n= 1 m= 1 ( j) ( k ) mn mn where C jk is the jk th element of the covariance matrix, C, N is the number of seismic lines in the survey, M is the number of seismic crosslines in the survey, and (k ) d and are the spectral magnitudes of the j th and k th frequencies at line n and crossline m. ( j) mn d mn 9

The second step is to decompose the covariance matrix into J scalar eigenvalues, λ p, and J unit length Jx1 eigenvectors, v p, by solving the equation Cv = λ. (2) p p v p Almost all numerical solutions of equation 2 [we use LAPACK (2007) program ssyevx] sort the eigenvectors, v p, in either ascending or descending order according to their corresponding eigenvalues. The third step is to project the spectrum at each trace onto each eigenvector, v p, to obtain a map of coefficients, is represented by a given eigenvector: ( p) a mn, that measure how much of each spectrum a ( p) mn = J j= 1 v ( j) p d ( j) mn, (3) where the index j indicates the j th frequency. The output is a series of PC bands sorted in descending order of their statistical significance the percentage of original data variances observable in the particular PC band. EXAMPLE To illustrate the effectiveness of this technique we examine the phantom horizon slice 66 ms above the Pennsylvanian age Atoka unconformity from a survey acquired over the Central Basin Platform, Texas, U.S.A. shown previously in Figure 1. We compute 86 spectral components ranging from 5 Hz to 90 Hz using a matched pursuit technique described by Liu and Marfurt (2007b). Next, we perform principal component analysis on the 86 spectral components, form an 86 by 86 covariance matrix using equation 1, decompose it into 86 eigenvalue- 10

eigenvector pairs using equations 2, and project the original spectra at each trace onto each eigenvector using equation 3. Figure 6a displays the percentage of the data defined by each of the principal component spectra (or eigenvectors) displayed in Figure 6b. The first 3 principal components account for most of the spectral variation seen along this horizon. The remaining components account for only about 17% of the data. The spectral components were statistically balanced as part of Liu and Marfurt s (2007b) matched pursuit spectral decomposition algorithm. For this reason the first eigenvector PC band 1 is approximately flat and represents 62% of the total variation in the original data. The second eigenvector is monotonically decreasing, with the high frequencies contributing less than the low frequencies. We interpret this trend as representing the fact that the low frequencies are probably in phase with each other whereas the higher frequencies may have greater variation and need to be represented by more than one eigenvector. Although it is tempting to assign physical significance to these spectra (with eigenvector 3 perhaps representing thin bed tuning about 55 Hz) we need to remember that they reside in mathematical rather than geological space. While the first eigenvector does best represent the data, all subsequent eigenvectors are mathematically constructed to be orthogonal to the previous ones In Figure 7 we plot the four largest principal components of the data, as well as the 71 st component. It is important to remember that if a given event has very high reflectivity, it will have high amplitude in its components as well. For this reason we see channels tuning in and out in PC 1. We note that components 2, 3, and 4, display more anomalous behavior. PC 71 represents random noise. 11

By mapping the three largest principal components against red, green, and blue, we can represent 83% of our spectral information with a single colored image (Figure 8a) where each component is rescaled to span the range 0-255.. The conspicuous red features delineate the wider channels seen on the erosional high in the central and upper region in horizon time map. The green features delineate narrower channels that are upstream from the previous red channels. Note that the narrow channels indicated by green arrows are quite difficult to see in Figures 2-4. While they are best delineated by the higher frequency components, these components are also contaminated by noise. By construction, coherent spectra will be represented by the first few principal components while incoherent spectra corresponding to random noise will be represented by a linear combination of later principal components (such as PC 71 shown in Figure 7e). Selection of the PC bands with large eigenvalues implicitly increases the signal-tonoise ratio by rejecting noisy PC bands like 71. PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS OF COMPLEX SPECTRA The previous analysis was only performed on the magnitude of the spectra, represented by the images displayed in Figure 2. The phase spectral displayed in Figure 3 provide additional information. For example, in Fgiure 3b-d the channels marked by the yellow arrows show a 90- degree phase shift relative to the background and these channels are more chaotic in the higher frequency phase image as shown in Figure 3g-i. Please note the northwest linear features marked by the white arrows in Figure 3a-i. Several different geologic depositional environments may be represented by the same amplitude spectrum. In an extremely simple example, consider the 12

following four 2-term time series: (1,-1/2), (1/2, -1), (-1/2, 1), and (-1, 1/2). Each of these four series will have the same amplitude spectra. This ambiguity may create a false sense of continuity while in reality we change from an upward-coarsening to an upward-fining sequence. A formal generalization of equations 1-3 would begin by computing a J by J complex Hermitian-symmetric covariance matrix from the amplitude and phase of the complex spectra. This complex Hermitian covariance matrix is then decomposed into J real eigenvalue-complex eigenvector pairs. Crosscorrelating the complex conjugate of the complex eigenvectors with the complex spectra provides complex crosscorrelation coefficients or principal component maps. We have implemented this approach and find it unsatisfactory for two reasons. First it is unclear how to generalize our RGB multiattribute display to represent multiple complex maps. Second, and more important, the phase of the eigenvectors provides an extra degree of freedom to fit the complex spectra. This extra degree of freedom results in the channels being blurred rather than appearing as sharp discontinuities. Marfurt (2006) recognized this same limitation in principal component coherence computations using the analytic (complex) rather than the original (real) trace. He devised an alternative means of computing the statistics of the of the original (real) and Hilbert transform (imaginary) data, and simply treated the Hilbert transform of the data as if they were additional real samples. For our complex spectral analysis problem we therefore will simply add the ( j) ( j) covariance matrices computed from the real components, d cosϕ, to the covariance matrix mn mn 13

( j) ( j) ( j) computed from the imaginary components, d sinϕ, where d is the magnitude and mn mn mn ( j) ϕ mn is the phase of the complex spectra at the j th frequency at line n and crossline m. Generalizing equation 1 we obtain a J by J real symmetric covariance matrix: C jk = N M ( j) ( j) ( k ) ( k ) ( j) ( j) ( k ) ( k ) [ d cos d cosϕ + d sinϕ mn d mn sinϕ mn ] mn mn mn mn mn n= 1 m= 1 ϕ. (4) We then reapply equations 2 and 3 and note that the phase between the real and imaginary parts of the complex spectrum is locked and cannot be rotated when cross correlated with the real eigenvectors. In Figure 9 we display maps of the complex spectra projected onto the first four principal components. The first PC band is strikingly similar to the counterpart in Figure 7. For the second PC band, the channels stand out in stellar contrast in Figure 9 over Figure 7. PC ANALYSIS AS A FILTER Since principal component analysis assigns the most coherent spectra to the first eigenvalues and the incoherent, or random components of the spectra to the later eigenvalues we can use PC analysis as a filter. For our data, the first 5 PC bands will take account of more than 85% variance of the original data. The eigenvalues corresponding to PC bands greater than 5 drop to a negligible level, so that spectra crosscorrelated against eigenvectors with eigenvectors greater than 5 appear to be quite random, representing very small variations in the data spectra. Plotting the first three spectral components we generate the RGB color stack image in Figure 8, 14

thereby implicitly suppressing noise and increasing the signal-to-noise ratio. A more dramatic example can be found in Guo et al. (2006) where the horizon was contaminated by bad picks. We can use the first 5 PC bands to reconstruct most of the original data. In Figure 10a we redisplay the 90-Hz spectral magnitude component shown originally in Figure 2i. In Figure 10b we reconstruct the 90-Hz spectral component from the first 5 PC bands. We notice that the reconstructed data is very similar to the original data, which proves the effectiveness of data reconstruction. In Figure 10c, we use PC band 1, 3, 4, 5 to reconstructed the spectral magnitude. Note how the narrow channels are more easily delineated after rejection of PC band 2 in Figure 7b. Unfortunately, the principal components themselves do not always have a fixed relation to reflector thickness but rather will vary from horizon to horizon and survey to survey. While we suspect that reservoir thickness may be predicted from principal components through geostatistics or neural nets, prediction of thickness from physical principals (by relating it to the thin bed tuning model) requires use of the original spectral components. CONCLUSIONS We have shown that principal component analysis can reduce the redundant spectral components into significantly fewer, more manageable bands that capture most of the statistical variation of the original spectral response. By mapping the three largest principal components using an RGB color stack, we can represent most of the spectral variation with a single image, which in our example provided an excellent delineation of our channels. 15

While the first PC bands having the largest eigenvalues represent most of the signal, the later, PC bands having smaller eigenvalues represent random noise. This noise may be associated with input data contaminated by ground roll, acquisition footprint, and/or bad picks. Reconstructing the spectral components from a subset of PC bands provides a filtering tool that allows us to reject noise or enhance spectral behavior that best delineates the features of interest. As with principal components applied to seismic trace shape analysis (Coléou et al., 2003), we suspect that principal components will be an excellent for anomaly mapping using selforganized maps. Mathematically, the first 3 PC bands represent more variation of the data than using predetermined basis functions such as those proposed by Stark (2005) and Liu and Marfurt (2007a). However, we must remember that beyond the first PC band which represents the spectrum that best fits the original data, that there is little physical significance to the exact shape of the higher PC bands. Thus while such images are excellent for qualitative inversion, highlighting lateral changes in the data which can fit into a seismic geomorphology model, they are less valuable for quantitative inversion, such as predicting porosity-thickness. 16

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LIST OF FIGURE CAPTIONS Figure 1. Phantom horizon slice through the seismic data 66 ms above the Atoka unconformity from a survey acquired over the Central Basin Platform, TX, U.S.A. Yellow arrows indicate downstream and magenta arrows upstream components of complex channel systems draining the unconformity high. Colored circles correspond to locations of representative trace spectra displayed later in Figures 8-10. Figure 2. Phantom horizon slices corresponding to that shown in Figure 1 through the (a) 10 Hz, (b) 20 Hz, (c) 30 Hz, (d) 40 Hz, (e) 50 Hz, (f) 60 Hz, (g) 70 Hz, (h) 80 Hz, and (i) 90 Hz amplitude spectral component volumes computed using a matched pursuit algorithm.. Yellow arrows indicate downstream components of the channel system and are better delineated by the 20-40 Hz frequency images. Magenta arrows indicate upstream components of complex channel systems and are better delineated by the 40-60 Hz frequency images. Figure 3. Phantom horizon slices corresponding to that shown in Figures 1 and 2 through the (a) 10 Hz, (b) 20 Hz, (c) 30 Hz, (d) 40 Hz, (e) 50 Hz, (f) 60 Hz, (g) 70 Hz, (h) 80 Hz, and (i) 90 Hz phase spectral component volumes computed using a matched pursuit algorithm. Yellow arrows mark the location of downstreams components of the channel system, please note the phase rotation of the channel system in different frequency phase components. White arrows mark the position of a northwest linear feature. 19

Figure 4. Composite RGB images of (a) 10-20-30 Hz, (b) 40-50-60 Hz, (c) 70-80-90 Hz, (d) 10-40-70 Hz, (e) 20-50-80 Hz, and (f) 30-60-90 Hz phantom horizon slices through amplitude spectral component volumes where the first spectral amplitude is plotted against red, the second against green, and the third against blue. Each spectral component has been balanced over a 500 ms analysis window over the entire survey. Figure 5. Cartoon showing the computation of the covariance matrix C mn. Each complex spectral time slice is simply crosscorrelated with itself and the all other complex spectral time slices along the horizon of interest. Figure 6. (a) The first 20 eigenvalues and (b) the first five corresponding eigenvectors (or principal component spectra) computed from the 86 spectral components, eight of which are shown in Figure 2. The first three eigenvectors represent 80% of the variation in the data. The remaining eigenvectors only represent a small part of the spectral variation. Because the data were spectrally balanced using spectral decomposition algorithm described by Liu and Marfurt (2007b), the first principal component appears as a flat spectrum. By construction, the length of each eigenvector is exactly 1.0. Figure 7. The spectra projected onto the (a) first, (b) second, (c) third, (d) fourth, and (e) 71 st principal component. Note the anomalous areas are best represented by the 2 nd, 3 rd, and 4 th principal component. The 71 st principal component represents random noise. Figure 8. (a) Composite RGB image of the first three principal component bands (red=pc band 1, green=pc band 2 and blue=pc band 3). Each principal component is scaled to display 20

95 percent of the data to the each color channel. Note very narrow channels indicated by green arrows. Figure 9. The complex spectra projected onto the (a) first, (b) second, (c) third, and (d) fourth principal component computed from the complex spectra using equations 4, 2, and 3. Figure 10. (a) The original 90 Hz component, (b) the same component obtained after reconstruction using only the first 5 PC bands, and (c) the same component obtained after reconstruction using only the PC bands number 1, 3, 4, and 5. Note how the channels are more clearly defined in (c). 21

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a) 70 60 50 Percentag 40 30 20 10 0 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 PC Band Number b) 0.3 0.25 0.2 0.15 0.1 0.05 0-0.05-0.1-0.15-0.2-0.25 0 20 40 60 80 100 Hz PCA 1 PCA 2 PCA 3 PCA 4 PCA 5 Figure 6

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