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Target-oriented least-squares reverse-time migration with Marchenko redatuming and double-focusing: Field data application

Shoja, Aydin (author), van der Neut, J.R. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

Recently, the focus of reflection seismologists has shifted to applications where a high-resolution image of the subsurface is required. Least-Squares Reverse-Time Migration (LSRTM) is a common tool used to compute such images. Still, its high computational costs have led seismologists to use target-oriented LSRTM for imaging only a small target...

journal article 2024

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Target-Enclosed Least-Squares Seismic Imaging

Shoja, Aydin (author), van der Neut, J.R. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

Least-squares reverse-time migration (LSRTM) is a method that seismologists utilize to compute a high-resolution subsurface image. Nevertheless, LSRTM is a computationally demanding problem. One way to reduce the computational costs of the LSRTM is to choose a small region of interest (ROI) and compute the image of that region. However, finding...

journal article 2023

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Extracting small time-lapse traveltime changes in a reservoir using primaries and internal multiples after Marchenko-based target zone isolation

van IJsseldijk, J.E. (author), van der Neut, J.R. (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

Geophysical monitoring of subsurface reservoirs relies on detecting small changes in the seismic response between a baseline and monitor study. However, internal multiples, related to the over- and underburden, can obstruct the view of the target response, hence complicating the time-lapse analysis. To retrieve a response that is free from...

journal article 2023

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On the retrieval of forward-scattered waveforms from acoustic reflection and transmission data with the Marchenko equation

van der Neut, J.R. (author), Brackenhoff, J.A. (author), Meles, G.A. (author), Zhang, L. (author), Slob, E.C. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

A Green's function in an acoustic medium can be retrieved from reflection data by solving a multidimensional Marchenko equation. This procedure requires a priori knowledge of the initial focusing function, which can be interpreted as the inverse of a transmitted wavefield as it would propagate through the medium, excluding (multiply)...

journal article 2022

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Target-oriented least-squares reverse-time migration using Marchenko double-focusing: reducing the artefacts caused by overburden multiples

Shoja, Aydin (author), van der Neut, J.R. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

Geophysicists have widely used least-squares reverse-time migration (LSRTM) to obtain high-resolution images of the subsurface. However, LSRTM is computationally expensive and it can suffer from multiple reflections. Recently, a target-oriented approach to LSRTM has been proposed, which focuses the wavefield above the target of interest....

journal article 2022

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Marchenko Green’s Function Retrieval in Layered Elastic Media from Two-Sided Reflection and Transmission Data

van der Neut, J.R. (author), Brackenhoff, Joeri (author), Meles, Giovanni Angelo (author), Slob, E.C. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

By solving a Marchenko equation, Green’s functions at an arbitrary (inner) depth level inside an unknown elastic layered medium can be retrieved from single-sided reflection data, which are collected at the top of the medium. To date, it has only been possible to obtain an exact solution if the medium obeyed stringent monotonicity conditions and...

journal article 2022

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Marchenko redatuming, imaging and multiple elimination, and their mutual relations

Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author), Brackenhoff, J.A. (author), Dukalski, Marcin (author), Meles, G.A. (author), Slob, E.C. (author), Staring, M. (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author), van der Neut, J.R. (author), Zhang, L. (author), Reinicke Urruticoechea, C. (author)

With the Marchenko method it is possible to retrieve Green's functions between virtual sources in the subsurface and receivers at the surface from reflection data at the surface and focusing functions. A macro model of the subsurface is needed to estimate the first arrival; the internal multiples are retrieved entirely from the reflection data....

journal article 2021

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Reciprocity-based passive monitoring with individual sources

Almagro Vidal, C. (author), van der Neut, J.R. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

Time-lapse changes in the subsurface can be analyzed by comparing seismic reflection data from two different states, one serving as the base survey and the second as the monitor survey. Conventionally, reflection data are acquired by placing active seismic sources at the acquisition surface. Alternatively, these data can be acquired from passive...

journal article 2019

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Wavefield finite time focusing with reduced spatial exposure

Meles, G.A. (author), van der Neut, J.R. (author), van Dongen, K.W.A. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

Wavefield focusing is often achieved by time-reversal mirrors, where wavefields emitted by a source located at the focal point are evaluated at a closed boundary and sent back, after time-reversal, into the medium from that boundary. Mathematically, time-reversal mirrors are derived from closed-boundary integral representations of reciprocity...

journal article 2019

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Virtual acoustics in inhomogeneous media with single-sided access

Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author), Brackenhoff, J.A. (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author), van der Neut, J.R. (author), Slob, E.C. (author), Verschuur, D.J. (author)

A virtual acoustic source inside a medium can be created by emitting a time-reversed point-source response from the enclosing boundary into the medium. However, in many practical situations the medium can be accessed from one side only. In those cases the time-reversal approach is not exact. Here, we demonstrate the experimental design and...

journal article 2018

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Single- and Double-Sided Marchenko Imaging Conditions in Acoustic Media

van der Neut, J.R. (author), Brackenhoff, Joeri (author), Staring, Myrna (author), Zhang, L. (author), de Ridder, S.A.L. (author), Slob, E.C. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

journal article 2018

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Passive body-wave interferometric imaging with directionally constrained migration

Almagro Vidal, C. (author), van der Neut, J.R. (author), Verdel, Arie (author), Hartstra, I.E. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

Passive seismic interferometry enables the estimation of the reflection response of the subsurface using passive receiver recordings at the surface from sources located deep in the Earth. Interferometric imaging makes use of this retrieved reflection response in order to study the subsurface. Successful interferometric imaging relies on the...

journal article 2018

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Artifact-free reverse time migration

Zhang, L. (author), Slob, E.C. (author), van der Neut, J.R. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

We have derived an improved reverse time migration (RTM) scheme to image the medium without artifacts arising from internal multiple reflections. This is based on a revised implementation of Marchenko redatuming using a new time-truncation operator. Because of the new truncation operator, we can use the time-reversed version of the standard...

journal article 2018

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Source-receiver Marchenko redatuming on field data using an adaptive double-focusing method

Staring, M. (author), Pereira, Roberto (author), Douma, Huub (author), van der Neut, J.R. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

We have developed an adaptive double-focusing method that is specifically designed for the field-data application of source-receiver Marchenko redatuming. Typically, the single-focusing Marchenko method is combined with a multidimensional deconvolution (MDD) to achieve redatuming. Our method replaces the MDD step by a second focusing step...

journal article 2018

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Implementation of the marchenko method

Thorbecke, J.W. (author), Slob, E.C. (author), Brackenhoff, J.A. (author), van der Neut, J.R. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

The Marchenko method makes it possible to compute subsurface-to-surface Green's functions from reflection measurements at the surface. Applications of the Marchenko method have already been discussed in many papers, but its implementation aspects have not yet been discussed in detail. Solving the Marchenko equation is an inverse problem. The...

journal article 2017

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A new approach to separate seismic time-lapse time shifts in the reservoir and overburden

Liu, Y. (author), Landrø, Martin (author), Arntsen, Børge (author), van der Neut, J.R. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

For a robust way of estimating time shifts near horizontal boreholes, we have developed a method for separating the reflection responses above and below a horizontal borehole. Together with the surface reflection data, the method uses the direct arrivals from borehole data in the Marchenko method. The first step is to retrieve the focusing...

journal article 2017

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A Marchenko equation for acoustic inverse source problems

van der Neut, J.R. (author), Johnson, Jami L. (author), van Wijk, K. (author), Singh, S. (author), Slob, E.C. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

From acoustics to medical imaging and seismology, one strives to make inferences about the structure of complex media from acoustic wave observations. This study proposes a solution that is derived from the multidimensional Marchenko equation, to learn about the acoustic source distribution inside a volume, given a set of observations outside...

journal article 2017

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Accounting for free-surface multiples in Marchenko imaging

Singh, S. (author), Snieder, R (author), van der Neut, J.R. (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author), Slob, E.C. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

Imagine placing a receiver at any location in the earth and recording the response at that location to sources on the surface. In such a world, we could place receivers around our reservoir to better image the reservoir and understand its properties. Realistically, this is not a feasible approach for understanding the subsurface. We have...

journal article 2017

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On the role of multiples in Marchenko imaging

Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author), van der Neut, J.R. (author), Slob, E.C. (author)

journal article 2017

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A single-sided homogeneous Green's function representation for holographic imaging, inverse scattering, time-reversal acoustics and interferometric Green's function retrieval

Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author), van der Neut, J.R. (author)

Green's theorem plays a fundamental role in a diverse range of wavefield imaging applications, such as holographic imaging, inverse scattering, time-reversal acoustics and interferometric Green's function retrieval. In many of those applications, the homogeneous Green's function (i.e. the Green's function of the wave equation without a...

journal article 2016