Seismic coherence is of the essence for seismic interpretation as it highlights seismic discontinuity features caused by the deposition process, reservoir boundaries, tectonic movements, etc. Since its appearance in 1995, seismic coherence has become one of the most popular and highly recognized interpretation tools. In the last 25 years, there have been different kinds of approaches to calculate seismic coherence attributes, such as cross-correlation, semblance, and eigen-structure. We have also seen different coherence enhancement techniques and modified ways for coherence calculation to address different problems in diverse field applications. In this survey, we provide a general overview of seismic coherence, which is commonly used to delineate structural and stratigraphic discontinuities. We cover the development of the seismic coherence attributes via introducing existing approaches for coherence calculation, enhancement, spectral band-limited coherence methods, and offset-/azimuth-limited coherence methods. In addition, we also discuss the possible coherence artifacts and pitfalls. To better compare different techniques, field applications are provided, where different disciplinary coherence attributes with enhancement techniques are calculated for the channel, fault, carbonate karst, and volcano interpretation.

地震相干性是地震解释的本质，因为它突出了沉积过程、储层边界、构造运动等引起的地震不连续性特征。自 1995 年出现以来，地震相干性已成为最受欢迎和高度认可的解释工具之一。在过去的 25 年中，出现了不同类型的计算地震相干属性的方法，例如互相关、相似性和特征结构。我们还看到了不同的相干增强技术和相干计算的改进方法，以解决不同领域应用中的不同问题。在本次调查中，我们提供了地震相干性的一般概述，它通常用于描绘结构和地层的不连续性。我们通过介绍现有的相干计算、增强、谱带限制相干方法和偏移/方位角限制相干方法来介绍地震相干属性的发展。此外，我们还讨论了可能的连贯性伪影和陷阱。为了更好地比较不同的技术，提供了现场应用，其中针对通道、断层、碳酸盐岩溶和火山解释计算了具有增强技术的不同学科相干属性。