Green's function retrieval with Marchenko equations: A sensitivity analysis

Recent research showed that the Marchenko equation can be used to construct the Green’s function for a virtual source position in the subsurface. The method requires the reflection response at the surface and an estimate of the direct arrival of the wavefield, traveling from the virtual source location to the acquisition surface. In this paper,...

Flux-normalized elastodynamic wavefield decomposition using only particle velocity recordings

We present a new approach to apply wavefield decomposition, illustrated for an energy flux-normalized elastodynamic case. We start by considering a situation where two horizontal boreholes are closely separated from each other. By recording only the particle velocities at both depth levels (for example with conventional 3-component geophones)...

Acoustic wavefield separation using horizontal receiver arrays deployed at multiple depths on land

We present a novel inversion scheme for decomposing upgoing and downgoing wavefields from vertical particle velocity recordings in downhole arrays at multiple depth levels. Our method requires no knowledge of the subsurface medium parameters as the required operators are obtained directly from the data by direct-wave interferometry. As we...