Acoustic plane-wave Marchenko multiple elimination applied on complex marine data

Marchenko redatuming retrieves Green’s functions inside an unknown medium, by solving a set of coupled Marchenko equations, which are derived from an under-determined system of equation and two temporal truncations. To constrain the problem, two assumptions are made, which hold reasonably well for acoustic, but not for elastodynamic waves. First...

Elastodynamic Marchenko Green's function retrieval from two-sided reflection and transmission data

Green’s functions in an unknown elastic layered medium can be retrieved from single-sided reflection data by solving a Marchenko equation. This methodology requires a priori knowledge of all forward-scattered (non-converted and converted) waveforms. Moreover, the medium should satisfy stringent monotonicity conditions, which are often not met in...

On the benefits of auxiliary transmission data for Marchenko-based Green’s function retrieval

Green’s functions in an unknown medium can be retrieved from single-sided reflection data by solving a multidimensional Marchenko equation. This methodology requires knowledge of the direct wavefield throughout the medium, which should include forward-scattered waveforms. In practice, the direct field is often computed in a smooth background...

A Proposal for Marchenko-Based Target-Oriented Full Waveform Inversion

The Hessian matrix plays an important role in correct interpretation of the multiple scattered wave fields inside the FWI frame work. Due to the high computational costs, the computation of the Hessian matrix is not feasible. Consequently, FWI produces overburden related artifacts inside the target zone model, due to the lack of the exact...

Marchenko Multiple Elimination: From Point-Source to Plane-Wave Datasets Applications

Seismic images provided by reverse time migration can be contaminated by artefacts associated with the migration of multiples.<br/><br/>Multiples can corrupt seismic images, producing both false positives, i.e. by focusing energy at unphysical interfaces, and false negatives, i.e. by destructively interfering with primaries. Multiple-related...

Wavefield focusing with reduced cranial invasiveness

Wavefield focusing can be achieved by Time-Reversal Mirrors, which involve in- and output signals that are infinite in time and waves propagating through the entire medium. Here, an alternative solution for wavefield focusing is presented. This solution is based on a new integral representation where in- and output signals are finite in time,...

Elastodynamic Plane Wave Marchenko Redatuming: Theory and Examples

The Marchenko method is capable to create virtual sources inside a medium that is only accessible from an openboundary. The resulting virtual data can be used to retrieve images free of artefacts caused by internal multiples. Conventionally, the Marchenko method retrieves a so-called focusing wavefield that focuses the data from the recording...

Velocity analysis using surface-seismic primaries-only data obtained without removing multiples

A number of seismic processing methods, including velocity analysis (Sheriff and Geldart, 1999), make the assumption that recorded waves are primaries - that they have scattered only once (the Born approximation). Multiples then represent a source of coherent noise and must be suppressed to avoid artefacts. There are different approaches to...