Creating virtual receivers from drill-bit noise

In the field of seismic interferometry using noise, surface waves and body waves between receivers have been retrieved by crosscorrelating recordings of uncorrelated noise sources to extract useful subsurface information. When the positions of the noise sources are known, inter-source interferometry can be applied to retrieve the wavefileds...

Combining inter-source seismic interferometry and source-receiver interferometry for deep local imaging

The virtual source method has been applied successfully to retrieve the impulse response between pairs of receivers in the subsurface. This method is further improved by an updown separation prior to the crosscorrelation to suppress the reflections from the overburden and the free surface. In a reversed situation where the sources are in the...

Turning subsurface noise sources into virtual receivers by multi-dimensional deconvolution

The retrieval of the Green's functions between receiver pairs by multi-dimensional deconvolution can be extended to extract the impulse response between source pairs through source-receiver reciprocity. However in general, the procedure requires the separation of the outgoing and incoming wavefields at the sources, which reduces to the...