Basis Pursuit Theory

• At this stage, a can be interpreted as the time-frequency

dependent reflectivity, which corresponds to the time
frequency distribution of the seismic trace s:
 a1 
  1
a 2
s  ( ψ 1 ψ 2 ... ψ N )  2     Da   J s  Da 2  l a 1
  2
 
 aN 
• The term l is the trade-off parameter controlling the
relative strength between the data misfit term and the
sparsity of a.
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 Synthetic example
1. Center frequency of 60 Hz
1 4 with zero phase;
2 3 5 2. Center frequency of 40 Hz
o
with +90 phase;
3. Center frequency of 90 Hz
o
with -45 phase;
4. Center frequency of 40 Hz
o
with +45 phase;
5. Center frequency of 20 Hz
o
with +45 phase.

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