摘要:
A method of analysing seismic signals for use in connection with marine seismic data acquisition activities including the steps of: sensing a receiver ghost signal using a submerged acoustic sensor (18); and estimating the height of the water column above the acoustic sensor using said receiver ghost signal (30). The method may further include the steps of: identifying changes in arrival times from seismic signals received by a plurality of submerged acoustic sensors (18) located at different offsets from an acoustic source; determining time differences between the identified changes in arrival times and expected changes in arrival times associated with an assumed acoustic sensor depth profile; and converting the time differences into depth differences between the assumed acoustic sensor depth profile and the actual depth profile of said acoustic sensors. This method provides for improved determination of local wave heights and acoustic sensor elevations and allows 'noise' in seismic data associated with changes in local wave heights and seismic sensor elevations to be attenuated during subsequent data processing.
摘要:
A method for reconstructing (138) a selected wavefield at a designated common midpoint and offset location (132) from a set of prestack seismic data traces (126). The method uses actual data traces from other common midpoint and offset locations to reconstruct the selected wavefield at the designated reconstruction location. The method may be used to reconstruct any selected wavefield, including both primary reflection wavefields and secondary wavefields such as water-bottom multiple wavefields, and may be used with both 2-D and 3-D seismic data. If the reconstructed wavefield is a secondary wavefield, it may be subtracted from the restack seismic data traces to eliminate interference between wavefields. The method may also be used to reconstruct data from missing shots to avoid spatial aliasing problems in other data processing operations.
摘要:
A method for reducing the effects of reverberation on noisy seismic wavefields recorded from within a moisture-laden environment. The wavefield manifests itself as a pressure signature and a velocity signature that contains an embedded noise signature. The pressure signature is adaptively filtered and subtractively combined with the velocity signature to isolate a nearly pure noise signature. The nearly pure noise signature is added back to the original velocity signature with opposite sign to clear away the embedded noise, leaving a refined velocity signature. The refined velocity signature iteratively is scaled and summed with the pressure signature, incrementing the scale factor at each iteration and autocorrelating the sum. A coefficient of convergence is calculated after each summation. The coefficient of convergence that most closely approaches unity identifies the preferred scale factor.
摘要:
A method for reducing the effects of reverberation on noisy seismic wavefields recorded from within a moisture-laden environment. The wavefield manifests itself as a pressure signature and a velocity signature that contains an embedded noise signature. The pressure signature is adaptively filtered and subtractively combined with the velocity signature to isolate a nearly pure noise signature. The nearly pure noise signature is added back to the original velocity signature with opposite sign to clear away the embedded noise, leaving a refined velocity signature. The refined velocity signature iteratively is scaled and summed with the pressure signature, incrementing the scale factor at each iteration and autocorrelating the sum. A coefficient of convergence is calculated after each summation. The coefficient of convergence that most closely approaches unity identifies the preferred scale factor.
摘要:
In dual-sensor, bottom-cable (16) marine seismic exploration where hydrophone/geophone pairs (18) are deployed on the marine bottom (20), coupling imperfections between the geophones and the marine bottom contribute to differences between the impulse response of the geophones and the impulse response of the hydrophones. To correct for the coupling imperfection, a filter is designed which compensates for the inherent impulse response differences as well as response differences caused by the imperfect coupling. Preferably, the filter is designed using a calibration procedure prior to production shooting. First, the response of a hydrophone and geophone to a seismic wave is recorded. Then, these recorded responses are transformed into the frequency domain. Once transformed, the response of the hydrophone is divided by the response of the geophone to produce a filtering function. When the filtering function is applied to geophone signals during production shooting, the filter compensates the geophone signals to alleviate differences in response characteristics between the geophone signals and the hydrophone signals.
摘要:
Marine seismic data is gathered using a cable (16) towed behind a vessel (10) having a slanted orientation in the water. The recorded data is processed to remove the time offset in the recorded data of seismic signals arriving at the cable (16) at varying plane wave angles. The recorded data is then processed to align the primary signals, thereby misaligning the ghost signals. The data is also processed to align the ghost signals, thereby misaligning the primary signals. The two resulting data sets may then be summed.
摘要:
A method and system for producing a seismic signal indicative of the substrata beneath a body of water comprising the steps of: supplying acoustic energy to the body of water; sensing both the pressure waves and the motion of the water particles accompanying pressure waves reflected from the substrata below the water and from the surface of the water; normalizing the amplitudes of the pressure wave and particle motion signals; modifying the phase shifts of these pressure wave and particle motion signals so that each of the phase shifts of such signals, other than phase shifts caused by the time at which the pressure waves and particle motions are sensed is zero; modifying the amplitude of each frequency component of the normalized, zero-phased signals as a function of the signal-to-noise ratios related to the pressure wave and particle motion sensing steps; and combining these modified signals to reduce or eliminate the effect of the surface reflection on the recorded seismic signal.
摘要:
A method includes receiving a seismic dataset from a survey, wherein the seismic dataset represents a portion of a subsurface geological formation and includes primary and multiple data. The method further includes the steps of conditioning the seismic dataset and estimating a model of the multiple data in the conditioned seismic dataset based on a user-defined parameter to derive a primary data set. Further, the method includes the steps of computing a velocity model from the primary data set using the user-defined parameter and updating the estimated multiple model based at least on a modification of the user-defined parameter. In addition, the method includes the steps of recomputing the primary data and the velocity model based on the modified user-defined parameter and generating an image of the primary data.
摘要:
A method, including: storing, in a computer storage device, geophysical seismic data that has been separated into a multiple-free component and a multiple contaminated component; performing, with a processor, a first full wavefield inversion process on the multiple-free component of the seismic data, wherein a first subsurface physical property model is generated; determining, with a processor, an extended target reflectivity, wherein the extended target reflectivity includes a reflectivity for each of a plurality of shots; separately performing, with a processor, a second full wavefield inversion process with the multiple contaminated component of the seismic data for each of the plurality of shots using the reflectivity corresponding to each of the plurality of shots, wherein a second subsurface physical property model is generated; and generating, with a processor, multiple-free final subsurface physical property model by combining the first subsurface physical property model and the second subsurface physical property model.
摘要:
Marine seismic vibrators in a marine seismic vibrator array for use in a seismic survey are activated to produce a source gradient wavefield to survey a target structure. The seismic survey may comprise a marine seismic survey conducted in a body of water.