How To Edit Wavelets

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HowtoEditWaveletsinHampsonRussellSoftware
DidyouknowthatyoucanmanuallyedityourwaveletsinHampsonRussell?Orthatyoucanapplyoperationslikephase
rotationsandconstanttimeshifts?ThiscanbedoneintheWaveletDataExplorer.
SelectOptions>EditfromthebottomtoolbaroftheWaveletExplorer.

TheEditWaveletdialogwillappear.Initiallytheoriginalwaveletinblueiscompletelyoverlainbytheeditedwaveletin
rednoeditshavebeenappliedatthispoint.

ThemostcommoneditingoptionsareavailableasindicatedbythetabsintheEditWaveletdialog:phaserotation,time
shift,resampling,resizing,anddirecteditingofthesamples.

Thewaveletshownabovelooksreasonable.However,onecouldpreferthata(minor)timeshiftisappliedsothatthe
centralpeakcoincidesexactlywithzerotime.
TodothisaconstanttimeshiftisappliedusingtheTimeShiftoption.Theoriginalwaveletinblueisdisplayedfor
referencethetimeshiftedwaveletisshowninred.Itcanbeseenthatitscentralpeaknowcoincidesexactlywithzero
time.

TheamplitudesoftheupdatedwaveletaredisplayedwhenyoupressRefresh.Youcanchoosetodisplaythemintime
orfrequencydomains(amplitudeorphase).

Insteadofapplyingatimeshift,youcanalsoapplyaconstantphaserotationsothatthecentralpeakcoincidesexactly
withzerotime.Theoriginalphasespectrumneednotbeconstanttodothis.Inthenextpicture,aconstantphase
rotationof22degreeswasappliedtotheoriginalphasespectrum,whichhadanaveragevalueof+22degrees.

Thetimeshiftwavelet(magenta)andconstantphaserotationwavelet(brown)bothhavetheircentralpeakexactly
coincidentwithzerotime.

TheResampleoptionintheEditWaveletsdialogallowsyoutoresamplethewavelet.
TheResizeoptionallowsyoutochangethelengthofthewavelet.
TheEditSampleoptionallowsyoutoedittheactualvaluesdirectly.Asanexampleofthelatter,inthenextpicture
theoriginalwaveletamplitudespectrumvalues(blue)areeditedresultinginasmootherspectrum(brown).

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