Do we need up/down decomposition for Marchenko imaging?

Marchenko redatuming, imaging, monitoring and multiple elimination methods are based on Green’s function representations, with the underlying assumption that the wave field in the subsurface can be decomposed into downgoing and upgoing waves and that evanescent waves can be neglected. In this paper we show that up/down decomposition in the...

Discerning small time-lapse traveltime changes by isolating the seismic response of a reservoir using the Marchenko method

4D seismic studies aim to observe time-lapse changes in the subsurface between a baseline and a monitor study. These changes are generally small, and the seismic response from a deep reservoir can be concealed by reflections from shallow structures. Here, we introduce a novel way of isolating the reservoir response by means of the Marchenko...