A comparison of data-driven internal multiple elimination strategies and their consequences for imaging

We compare two data-driven internal multiple reflection elimination schemes derived from regular Marchenko equations and Inverse Scattering Series (ISS). The scheme derived from regular Marchenko equations creates a new data set without internal multiple reflections. The scheme derived from ISS is equal to the result after the second...

A field data example of Marchenko multiple elimination

Multiple reflections are often considered as noise in seismic data. Dealing with them has attracted much attention from industry and academia. A variety of schemes have been developed for removal of free-surface multiple reflections and success has been achieved in numerical and field datasets. However, less attention has been directed toward...

Free-surface and internal multiple elimination in one step without adaptive subtraction

We have derived a scheme for retrieving the primary reflections from the acoustic surface-reflection response by eliminating the free-surface and internal multiple reflections in one step. This scheme does not require model information and adaptive subtraction. It consists only of the reflection response as a correlation and convolution operator...

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

Artifact-free reverse time migration

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...

Multiple elimination and transmission compensation in primary reflections in data domain

We retrieve transmission compensated subsurface primary reflections from the reflection response measured at the surface. This is achieved by filtering the reflection response. The application of this scheme does not require model information. In this process, the reflection response is convolved and correlated with itself. The result after each...

Artefact-Free Imaging by a Revised Marchenko Scheme

A revised Marchenko scheme that avoids the need to compute the Green’s function is presented for artefact-free image of the subsurface with single-sided reflection response as input. The initial downgoing Green’s function which can be modelled from a macro model is needed for solving the revised Marchenko equations instead of its inverse. The...

Electromagnetic Marchenko scheme based internal multiple elimination for lossless media

Iterative substitution of the Marchenko equation has been introduced recently to integrate internal multiple reflection in the seismic and electromagnetic imaging process. In the so-called Marchenko imaging, solving the Marchenko equation at each imaging point is required to meet this objective. It makes the scheme seriously expensive....

Obtaining local reflectivity at two-way travel time by filtering acoustic reflection data

A modified implementation of Marchenko redatuming leads to a filter that removes internal multiples from reflection data. It produces local reflectivity at two-way travel time. The method creates new primary reflections resulting from emitted events that eliminate internal multiples. We call these non-physical<br/>primaries and their presence is...

Electromagnetic Marchenko imaging in 1D for dissipative media

We present a one-dimensional lossless scheme to compute an image of a dissipative medium from two single-sided reflection responses. One reflection response is measured at or above the top reflector of a dissipative medium and the other reflection response is computed as if measured at or above the top reflector of a medium with negative...