Abstract
According to the fact that high order cumulants (HOC) retain the phase information of signals and the HOC of the Gaussian color noise is always equal to zero, a new method of wavelet reconstruction is provided in this paper, based on 4th-order cumulants of non-Gaussian seismic signals. The feasibility of this method is demonstrated by the simulation of wavelet estimation for synthetic seismic traces. Furthermore, the seismic wavelet of field data processed with this method can be reconstructed correctly.