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Fast Free-surface Multiple Attenuation Work- Flow for 3D OBS Data

Abstract

Multiple reflections in marine seismic data are an old standing problem. We present a new fast work flow for attenuation of free-surface related multiples for 2D and 3D Ocean Bottom Seismic (OBS) data based on the wave equation approach from Amundsen (2001a, 2001b). Free-surface multiple attenuation is performed in the radon domain. Data are transformed into the Radon (-p-q) domain by means of a fast Radon Transform using Fourier projection slice theorem. This allows transforming even large data sets in a fast manner.Then, the wavefield is split into its up-and down-going part and which are used to create a deterministic deconvolution filter to attenuate the energy of the free-surface multiples.

Category

Academic article

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Barbel Traub
  • Anh Kiet Nguyen
  • Matthias Rieder

Affiliation

  • SINTEF
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Year

2006

Published in

Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Expanded Abstracts with Biographies

ISSN

1052-3812

Volume

25

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