Editorial: Advances and new methods in reservoirs quantitative characterization using seismic data

Seismic-driven reservoir characterization has always been a practical craft: we work with band-limited 10 measurements, imperfect illumination, and sparse calibration, yet we are expected to produce models 11 that can guide real decisions. In recent years that craft has become more demanding. We would like to thank all authors for contributing their work and for engaging constructively through 113 review and revision. We are also grateful to the reviewers whose detailed comments strengthened not 114 only the technical presentation, but also the practical framing-often the difference between a method 115 that reads well and one that can be applied. Finally, We thank the Frontiers in Earth Science editorial 116 team for their support throughout the process. 117We hope readers will use this collection as a working reference: not a catalogue of fashionable terms, 118 but a set of concrete methods, inversion strategies, signal-description tools, and field-based 119 demonstrations that can be tested, combined, and refined for their own reservoirs and operational 120 constraints. 121