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Implementation of the Marchenko multiple elimination algorithm

Thorbecke, J.W. (author), Zhang, L. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author), Slob, E.C. (author)

The Marchenko multiple elimination (MME) and transmission compensation schemes retrieve primary reflections in the two-way traveltime domain without model information or using adaptive subtraction. Both schemes are derived from projected Marchenko equations and are similar to each other, but they use different time-domain truncation operators...

journal article 2021

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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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Data-driven retrieval of primary plane-wave responses

Meles, G.A. (author), Zhang, L. (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author), Slob, E.C. (author)

Seismic images provided by reverse time migration can be contaminated by artefacts associated with the migration of multiples. Multiples can corrupt seismic images, producing both false positives, that is by focusing energy at unphysical interfaces, and false negatives, that is by destructively interfering with primaries. Multiple prediction...

journal article 2020

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An overview of Marchenko methods

Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author), Staring, M. (author), Brackenhoff, J.A. (author), Zhang, L. (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author), Slob, E.C. (author)

Since the introduction of the Marchenko method in geophysics, many variants have been developed. Using a compact unified notation, we review redatuming by multidimensional deconvolution and by double focusing, virtual seismology, double dereverberation and transmission-compensated Marchenko multiple elimination, and discuss the underlying...

conference paper 2020

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Data-driven retrieval of primary plane-wave responses

Meles, G.A. (author), Zhang, L. (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author), Slob, E.C. (author)

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abstract 2020

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

Meles, G.A. (author), Zhang, L. (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author), Slob, E.C. (author)

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...

conference paper 2020

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Transmission compensated primary reflection retrieval in the data domain and consequences for imaging

Zhang, L. (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author), Slob, E.C. (author)

We have developed a scheme that retrieves primary reflections in the two-way traveltime domain by filtering the data. The data have their own filter that removes internal multiple reflections, whereas the amplitudes of the retrieved primary reflections are compensated for two-way transmission losses. Application of the filter does not require...

journal article 2019

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Data-driven internal multiple elimination and its consequences for imaging: A comparison of strategies

Zhang, L. (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author), Slob, E.C. (author)

We have compared three data-driven internal multiple reflection elimination schemes derived from the Marchenko equations and inverse scattering series (ISS). The two schemes derived from Marchenko equations are similar but use different truncation operators. The first scheme creates a new data set without internal multiple reflections. The...

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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A single-sided representation for the homogeneous Green's function, accounting for all multiples

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

Marchenko imaging is a novel imaging technique that is capable to retrieve images from single-sided reflection measurements free of artefacts related to internal multiples (e.g. Behura et al., 2014; Broggini et al., 2012). An essential ingredient of Marchenko imaging is the so-called focusing function which can<br/>be retrieved from reflection...

conference paper 2018

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Virtual seismology: from hydrocarbon reservoir imaging to induced earthquake monitoring

Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author), Brackenhoff, J.A. (author), Staring, M. (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author), Slob, E.C. (author)

Recent developments in exploration seismology have enabled the creation of virtual sources and/or virtual receivers in the subsurface from reflection measurements at the earth's surface. Unlike in seismic interferometry, no physical instrument (receiver or source) is needed at the position of the virtual source or receiver. Moreover, no detailed...

conference paper 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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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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Comparison of Eigenvectors for Coupled Seismo-Electromagnetic Layered-Earth Modeling

Grobbe, N. (author), Slob, E.C. (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author)

We study the accuracy and numerical stability of three eigenvector sets for modelling the coupled poroelastic and electromagnetic layered-Earth response. We use a known eigenvector set, its flux-normalized version and a newly derived flux-normalized set. The new set is chosen such that the system is properly uncoupled when the coupling between...

journal article 2016

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Marchenko equations for acoustic Green's function retrieval and imaging in dissipative media

Slob, E.C. (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

We present a scheme for Marchenko imaging in a dissipative heterogeneous medium. The scheme requires measured reflection and transmission data at two sides of the dissipative medium. The effectual medium is the same as the dissipative medium, but with negative dissipation. We show how the measured double-sided data can be combined to obtain the...

conference paper 2016

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Inversino of controlled-source electromagnetic reflection responses

Hunziker, Jürg (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author), Brackenhoff, J.A. (author), Slob, E.C. (author)

Marine controlled-source electromagnetic reflection responses can be retrieved by interferometry. These reflection responses are free of effects related to the water layer and the air above it and do not suffer from uncertainties related to the source position and orientation. Interferometry is a data-driven process requiring proper sampling of...

journal article 2016

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From closed-boundary to single-sided homogeneous Green's function representations

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

The homogeneous Green’s function (i.e., the Green’s function and its time-reversed counterpart) plays an important role in optical, acoustic and seismic holography, in inverse scattering methods, in the field of time-reversal acoustics, in reversetime migration and in seismic interferometry. Starting with the classical closed-boundary...

conference paper 2016

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Imaging the earth's interior with virtual sources and receivers

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

abstract 2016

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Seismic reflection imaging, accounting for primary and multiple reflections

Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author), Van der Neut, J.R. (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author), Broggini, F. (author), Slob, E.C. (author), Snieder, R. (author)

journal article 2015

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An illustration of adaptive Marchenko imaging

Van der Neut, J.R. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author), Thorbecke, J.W. (author), Slob, E.C. (author), Vasconcelos, I. (author)

In Marchenko imaging, wavefields are retrieved at specified focal points in the subsurface through an iterative scheme derived from the multidimensional Marchenko equation. The method requires seismic-reflection data at the earth’s surface (after free-surface multiple elimination) and an estimate of the direct wavefield from the surface to each...

journal article 2015