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D.J. Verschuur

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Imaging and inversion of land seismic data affected by complex weathering layers near the surface are challenging. When the data are additionally subsampled for economical reasons such as monitoring of sequestrated carbon dioxide and hydrogen, the problem is further exacerbated d ...
Reflection waveform inversion (RWI) is a technique that uses pure reflection data to estimate subsurface background velocity, relying on evolving seismic images. Conventional RWI operates in a cyclic workflow, with two key components in each cycle—migration and reflection tomogra ...
Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a commonly used technology for identifying and examining ice. The low electrical conductivity and the uniformity of ice covers provide GPR with exceptional signal penetration and, thus, the ability to reveal the internal layers of glaciers. To ex ...
Enhanced pre-stack depth migration, characterized by improved resolution and amplitudes, ensures a more accurate representation of the subsurface, proving essential for reducing the likelihood of geological misinterpretations and facilitating informed decision-making in seismic e ...
Acquiring economical land data with compressive sensing requires data reconstruction. In the presence of complex near-surface weathering layers, which on their own typically pose a challenge to processing densely sampled data, data reconstruction suffers. The conventional approac ...
Seismic Imaging (SI) survey design for onshore applications faces challenges such as accessibility and poor data quality due to unexpected (near-)surface conditions. In this paper, we explore the correlation between the surface conditions provided by Land-Cover (LC) maps generate ...
Since seismic imaging creates an image of the subsurface structure based on information received from the measured wavefield, it is essential to fully utilize the reflected waves. Full Wavefield Modeling (FWMod) was developed with recursive and iterative up-and-down wavefield pro ...
Since the appearance of wave-equation migration, many have tried to improve the resolution and effectiveness of this technology. Least-squares wave-equation migration is one of those attempts that tries to fill the gap between the migration assumptions and reality in an iterative ...
The phenomenon of wave conversions, where acoustic, pressure (P) waves are converted to elastic, shear (S) waves is commonly disregarded in seismic imaging, which can lead to lower-quality images in regions with strong reflectors. While a number of methods exist which do take wav ...

A research and production geothermal project on the TU Delft campus

Initial modeling and establishment of a digital twin

Nearly half of the Netherlands’ natural gas consump tion is allocated to heating, with direct -use geothermal heating being one of the available low-carbon energy solutions. A geothermal well doublet, designed with the two primary aims of research and commercial heat supply, is c ...

Wavefield Reconstruction in the Presence of a Dipping Layer

Full Wavefield Modeling vs Marchenko Redatuming

The accuracy of a model obtained by full-waveform inversion can be estimated by analysing the sensitivity of the data to perturbations of the model parameters in selected subsurface points. Each perturbation requires the computation of the seismic response in the form of Born sca ...
We apply supervirtual interferometry to boost the surface-wave content of two different seismic surveys. The method uses seismic interferometric principles to exploit data redundancy in multi-fold surveys. The effect on the first survey is generally positive, where the signal-to- ...
Seismic waves traveling through the subsurface experience several forms of attenuation, including geometric spreading, reflection, transmission, and earth attenuation (via the so-called quality factor Q). To achieve high-resolution sub-surface details, it is essential to tackle a ...
The Marchenko method is capable of estimating Green’s functions between the surface of the Earth and arbitrary locations in the subsurface. These Green’s functions are used to redatum wavefields to a deeper level in the subsurface. The Marchenko method enables the isolation of th ...
The data-driven surface-related multiple elimination (SRME)-type approach requires fully sampled sources and receivers during the multidimensional convolution process. Otherwise, the estimated multiples will be aliased. Compared to expensive reconstruction processes before predic ...
This extended abstract discusses a novel approach to identify geological sub-seismic scale features using angle-gather spectrograms. Traditional seismic methods face challenges in identifying fine scale geological structures, especially in sublayers thinner than about 1/10 of the ...
Full Wavefield Migration (FWMig) is an inversion-based seismic imaging modality that incorporates multiple reflections via one-way wave propagation. The flexible Full Wavefield Modelling (FWMod) engine that undergirds FWMig can be extended to address both compressional and conver ...
Seismic imaging is crucial for subsurface exploration and monitoring, with a focus on deep and complex structures. Seismic wave migration solves the wave equation, and an accurate propagator is essential. Full Wavefield Modeling (FWMod) was developed based on recursive and iterat ...
To avoid multiple iterations of normal moveout (NMO) velocity estimation followed by short-wavelength statics estimation usually performed on land data, and to also improve the accuracy and computational efficiency of the latter, a low-rank-based residuals statics (LR-ReS) estima ...
Reflection waveform inversion (RWI) is a method that relies on primary pure reflection data to recover the subsurface background velocity based on the associated evolving seismic images. Background velocity updates estimated by conventional RWI are nonoptimal, which is partly att ...