Abstract:
Methods for determining a seismic wave's propagation velocity in water for monitor seismic data of a 4D data set analyze a relationship between seafloor time-shifts and source-receiver offsets. The time-shifts are differences of normal move out corrected seafloor source-receiver travel times for pairs of traces. Each pair includes a base trace extracted from base seismic data of the 4D data set and a monitor trace extracted from the monitor seismic data, the traces corresponding to the same seafloor bin and having the same source-receiver offset.
Abstract:
A non-blended dataset related to a same surveyed area as a blended dataset is used to deblend the blended dataset. The non-blended dataset may be used to calculate a model dataset emulating the blended dataset, or may be transformed in a model domain and used to derive sparseness weights, model domain masking, scaling or shaping functions used to deblend the blended dataset.
Abstract:
Computing device, computer instructions and method for calculating an image of a subsurface based on least square migration and image de-convolution using a matching operator F. The method includes receiving seismic data d; computing a first image m of the subsurface based on the seismic data d; computing a second image h of the subsurface based on the first image m; applying a transform operation to the first and second images m and h to obtain a first transform of the first image and a second transform of the second image; calculating the matching operator F by matching the first transform of the first image to the second transform of the second image; and generating an updated image mupdated of the subsurface based on the matching operator F and the first transform of the first image.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for noise attenuation. The method includes receiving seismic data associated with at least two vintages (di, dj) collected for a same subsurface, wherein the first and second vintages (di, dj) are taken at different times; calculating a set of filters (fi, fj) that minimizes an energy function (E), wherein the energy function (E) includes a term representing a 4D difference between the first and second vintages (di, dj); calculating primaries (pi, pj) corresponding to the first and second vintages (di, dj) based on the set of (fi, fj); and calculating a 4D difference (Δij) based on the primaries (pi, pj). The 4D difference (Δij) is minimized.
Abstract:
Systems and method for improved analysis of seismic data are provided. The method includes obtaining seismic data including a plurality of vintages, and generating a plurality of attribute matrices based on the seismic data. The method further includes computing a centrality measure for each vintage of the plurality of vintages using the plurality of attribute matrices, and selecting, from the plurality of vintages, a vintage with the highest centrality measure as a reference vintage. Additionally, the method includes determining an oulier from the plurality of vintages based on correlating each of the plurality of vintages with the reference vintage.
Abstract:
A device, medium and method for processing seismic data associated with a subsurface of the earth. The method includes a step of receiving seismic data (d) recorded with one or more seismic receivers; a step of processing the seismic data (d) with a first processing algorithm to obtain imaged seismic data (D); a step of constructing wave-fields (W) corresponding to the imaged seismic data (D) by solving a given wave equation, wherein the wave-fields (W) have an added axis (τ) which maps back spectral properties of the imaged seismic data to its pre-imaging state; and a step of processing the wave-fields (W) along the axis (τ) with a second processing algorithm.
Abstract:
A method for calculating time-strains for two seismic data sets resulting from seismic exploration of the same subsurface structure uses selected subsets of data from the two seismic data sets to calculate time-shifts for each trace. A smooth function is fitted along each trace based on the calculated time-shifts a time derivative is applied to the smooth function to obtain time-strains along each trace.