Test of wavelet-based seismic data compression software

Yalei Sun and Biondo Biondi

yalei@sep.stanford.edu, biondo@sep.stanford.edu

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we test a new wavelet-transform based seismic data compression technique developed by Chevron. We apply this technique to two synthetic datasets and one field dataset. Our results show that this new compression approach can virtually retain all of the important seismic information at high compression ratios. We summarize several empirical rules which will help the high performance of this software.