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.