Robust estimation of VTI ( vertical symmetry axis) models via joint migration inversion: Including multiples in anisotropic parameter estimation

Since the Earth is predominately anisotropic, the anisotropy of the medium needs to be included in seismic imaging to avoid mispositioning of reflectors and unfocused images. Deriving accurate anisotropic velocities from the seismic reflection measurements is a highly nonlinear and ambiguous process. To mitigate the nonlinearity and trade-offs...

Closed-loop surface-related multiple elimination and its application to simultaneous data reconstruction

Surface-related multiple elimination (SRME) is one of the most commonly used methods for suppressing surface multiples. However, to obtain an accurate surface multiple estimation, dense source and receiver sampling is required. The traditional approach to this problem is performing data interpolation prior to multiple estimation. Although...

3-D acquisition geometry analysis: Incorporating information from multiples

Recent advances in survey design have led to conventional common-midpoint-based analysis being replaced by the subsurface-based seismic acquisition analysis and design, with the emphasis on advance techniques of illumination analysis. Amongst them are wave-equation-based seismic illumination analyses such as the so-called focal beam method. The...

Full wavefield migration, using internal multiples for undershooting

Full wavefield migration (FWM) is an inversion-based imaging algorithm that utilizes the complete reflection measurements: primaries as well as all multiples, both surface and internal. Using multiples in the imaging can extend the illumination of the subsurface. In this paper we concentrate the study on the internal scattering that can be...

3D primary estimation by sparse inversion using the focal domain parameterization

Recently, a new approach to multiple removal has been intro- duced: estimation of primaries by sparse inversion (EPSI). Al- though based on the same relationship between primaries and multiples as surface-related multiple elimination (SRME), it involves quite a different process: instead of prediction and subtraction of multiples, in EPSI the...

Estimation of primaries by sparse inversion incuding the ghost

Today, the problem of surface-related multiples, especially in shallow water, is not fully solved. Although surface-related multiple elimination (SRME) method has proved to be successful on a large number of data cases, the involved adaptive subtraction acts as a weak link in this methodology, where primaries can be distorted due to their...