Translations:Canonical representation – Chapter 10/1/en

the canonical representation of a seismic trace states that a nonminimum-delay wavelet can be represented uniquely by the convolution of an all-pass filter (which has a flat magnitude spectrum) and a minimum-delay wavelet. Both wavelets have the same magnitude spectrum (i.e., the same color). This representation is called the canonical representation (Figure 4). Let us call white anything that has a flat magnitude spectrum, whereas we call colored anything that has a curved, or nonwhite, magnitude spectrum. The canonical representation then states that a nonminimum-delay wavelet is equal to the convolution of a minimum-delay wavelet of the same color as the given nonminimum-delay wavelet with an all-pass system, which is white.