'This fascinating book is a thoroughly researched treatise of the analysis of signals in the 2D time-frequency plane … The book contains a wealth of useful information about the subject, which is hard to find in other texts.' Sven Treitel, The Leading Edge
1. Introduction; Part I. Basics and Constraints: 2. Small data are beautiful; 3. Of signals and noise; 4. On time, frequency, and Gauss; 5. Uncertainty; 6. From time and frequency to time-frequency; 7. Uncertainty revisited; 8. On stationarity; Part II. Geometry and Statistics: 9. Spectrogram geometry 1; 10. Sharpening spectrograms; 11. A digression on Hilbert-Huang transform; 12. Spectrogram geometry 2; 13. The noise case; 14. More on maxima; 15. More on zeros; 16. Back to examples; 17. Conclusion; 18. Annex – software tools.