WO2011121128A2 - Method of providing seismic data - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method of providing seismic data.
- the present invention relates to a method of providing marine seismic data.
- the receiver systems in these configurations are (1 ) normally hydrophones but possibly also vertically oriented geophones for towed-streamer acquisition; (2) hydrophones and three-component (3-C) geophones or accelerometers for OBS acquisition; and (3) hydrophones for VC acquisition.
- the geophones or accelerometers are in contact with the seafloor so that the recording of shear waves is enabled. If the horizontally oriented geophones or accelerometers were not in contact with the seafloor, they would produce a measurement of the horizontal derivative of the pressure field.
- 2-C streamers are well known (Berni, 1984; Ruehle, 1984; Amundsen, 2001 ; Carlson et al., 2007).
- the geostreamer When introduced in 2007 by PGS, the geostreamer provided a step change in marine seismic acquisition.
- the geostreamer is equipped with both hydrophones and vertically oriented geophones so that, among others, up/down wavefield decomposition or receiver-side deghosting can be achieved, thereby enabling the acquisition of broadband seismic data.
- Three-dimensional (3-D) up/down decomposition of the wavefield in the water column requires the proper measurement of both pressure on a hydrophone and vertical component of particle velocity on a vertically oriented geophone. To date, such measurements are not available in towed streamer acquisition due to the large cross- line separation between streamers, which typically is between 50-100 m.
- Robertsson et al. 2006, 2008
- 3-C geophone measurements would bring significant benefits to towed-marine seismic data if recorded and processed in conjunction with the pressure data. They show that particle velocity measurements can increase the effective Nyquist wavenumber by a factor of two or three, depending on how they are used.
- Singh et al (2009) propose seismic acquisition using a plurality of streamers, with a streamer having a plurality of compact clusters of hydrophones and/or particle motion sensors.
- Cluster means a plurality of sensors of the same type that are used together.
- the streamer is adapted to provide gradient measurements of pressure with the objective to provide improved methods of interpolating seismic data between adjacent streamers.
- receiver stations are stationary e.g. on the sea floor while a source vessel shoots on a predetermined x-y grid on the sea surface.
- the shot point interval often is so coarse that the data recorded at a given receiver station are undersampled and thus irrecoverably aliased.
- the pressure field and its x- and y-derivatives are measured in the water column, the pressure can be reconstructed by interpolation.
- the vertical component of the particle velocity (or acceleration) and its x- and y-derivatives are measured, then also this component can be reconstructed by interpolation.
- the interpolation scheme can be any scheme that reconstructs the field from its sampled values and sampled derivatives.
- the number of components is e.g. six.
- the number of components is e.g. ten.
- the properly interpolated measurements of pressure and vertical component of particle velocity from the multicomponent measurements allow proper up/down wavefield decomposition, or deghosting.
- New wavefield reconstruction methods as those suggested here are of significant interest since, presently, the seismic industry is in the process of developing multicomponent cables or streamers, and is in the process of carrying out research on new multicomponent sensors. According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing seismic data.
- a seismic source is actuated at a plurality of source locations. For each source location, a multicomponent seismic measurement is performed at at least one receiver location. A reconstructing method is applied to each multicomponent measurement to obtain additional data corresponding to source locations additional to the source locations at which the source was actuated.
- Each of the additional locations may be disposed between ones of the source locations at which the source was actuated.
- the additional data obtained from applying the reconstructing method may be considered as being for, or relating to, or being associated with, or relating to the wavefield at, the at least one receiver location at which the multicomponent seismic measurement was performed.
- the additional data obtained from applying the reconstructing method might be considered as relating to the wavefield at that receiver location, thereby providing additional data for that receiver location as if a seismic source had been actuated at an additional source location to the two source locations actually used.
- the source locations at which the source was actuated may comprise a regular grid.
- the grid may be one of a triangular grid, a rectangular grid and a hexagonal grid.
- the multicomponent seismic measurement may be performed at a plurality of receiver locations, and the method may comprise applying a reconstructing method to each multicomponent measurement to obtain additional data corresponding to receiver locations additional to the receiver locations at which the multicomponent measurement was performed.
- a method of providing seismic data comprising the steps of: actuating a seismic source at at least one source location; for each source location, performing a multicomponent seismic measurement at a plurality of receiver locations; and applying a reconstructing method to each multicomponent measurement to obtain additional data corresponding to receiver locations additional to the receiver locations at which the multicomponent measurement was performed.
- Each of the additional receiver locations may be disposed between ones of the receiver locations at which the multicomponent measurement was performed.
- the receiver locations at which the multicomponent measurement was performed may comprise a regular grid.
- the grid may be one of a triangular grid, a rectangular grid and a hexagonal grid.
- a method of providing seismic data comprising the steps of: actuating a seismic source at a plurality of source locations; for each source location, performing a multicomponent seismic measurement at a plurality of receiver locations; and applying a reconstructing method to each multicomponent measurement to obtain additional data corresponding to source locations additional to the source locations at which the source was actuated and/or additional data corresponding to receiver locations additional to the receiver locations at which the multicomponent measurement was performed.
- the additional data may comprise data corresponding to at least one component of the multicomponent measurements.
- the additional data may comprise pressure data.
- the additional data may comprise upgoing and/or downgoing constituents of pressure data.
- the additional data may comprise particle velocity related data.
- the additional data may comprise vertical particle velocity component related data.
- the additional data may comprise upgoing and/or downgoing constituents of vertical particle velocity component related data.
- Each multicomponent measurement may comprise pressure data.
- Each multicomponent measurement may comprise particle velocity related data.
- the particle velocity related data may comprise at least one of particle velocity data, particle displacement data, and particle acceleration data.
- Each multicomponent measurement may comprise pressure measurement and measures of derivatives of pressure with respect to first and second different directions.
- the first and second directions may be Cartesian coordinate directions.
- the first and second directions may be first and second horizontal directions.
- the first and second directions may be first and second vertical directions.
- Each multicomponent measurement may comprise vertical particle component velocity measurement and measures of derivatives of vertical particle component velocity with respect to third and fourth different horizontal directions.
- the vertical particle component velocity measurement may be derived from a measure of a derivative of pressure with respect to a vertical direction.
- the third and fourth directions may be horizontal Cartesian coordinate directions.
- the or each derivative of the vertical particle component velocity with respect to a horizontal direction may be derived from a measure of a derivative of a horizontal particle component velocity with respect to a vertical direction.
- the derivative of the vertical particle component velocity with respect to the third horizontal direction may be derived from a measure of a derivative with respect to a vertical direction of a particle component velocity in the third horizontal direction.
- the derivative of the vertical particle component velocity with respect to the fourth horizontal direction may be derived from a measure of a derivative with respect to a vertical direction of a particle component velocity in the fourth horizontal direction.
- the derivative of the vertical particle component velocity with respect to third and fourth different horizontal directions could be obtained by using data from angular rotation sensors on the seabed (measuring rotation or rotation rate around the two horizontal directions).
- the derivatives of the vertical particle component velocity may be obtained from measurements of rotation or rotation rate around the third and fourth horizontal directions.
- Each of the derivatives may be a first or second or third order derivative.
- the reconstructing method may comprise applying a sine squared or sine cubed or sine to the power four interpolation.
- Each derivative may be formed from a measurement of difference or particle displacement or particle velocity or particle acceleration.
- the or each receiver location may be fixed.
- the or each receiver location may comprise a receiver station disposed on or above the seabed, and/or in at least one cable on the seabed and/or orientated vertically in the water column.
- the or each receiver location may comprise a receiver station deployed in a borehole on land or below the seabed.
- the multicomponent measurement may be used to measure a strain field.
- a stress field may be derived from the strain field.
- the stress field may be derived from the strain field by Hooke's law.
- At least one receiver location may comprises a receiver station comprising a cluster of pressure sensors, such as hydrophones.
- a separation between adjacent pressure sensors in the cluster may be from 1 cm to 10 m, for example from 1 cm to 1 m, or 5 cm to 1 m, or from 10 cm to 10 m.
- a multicomponent unit could be arranged by use of multiple pressure sensors in a confined volume, involving numerous pressure sensors with a separation between 1 cm (or 10 cm) to 10 m, for example from 1 cm to 1 m or 5 cm to 1 m, to be recorded as individual sensor signals or "hardwired" to output only selected components.
- Each recording station could be anchored to the seabed, and consist of several multicomponent units.
- the units could be distributed upwards in the watercolumn, by means of floating devices and rope or more rigid structures.
- the method may further comprise measuring at least one non-seismic geophysical field.
- the at least one non-seismic geophysical field may comprise at least one of an electromagnetic field, a gravity field and a magnetic field.
- a method of processing seismic data acquired by actuating a seismic source at a plurality of source locations and, for each source location, performing a multicomponent seismic measurement at at least one receiver location comprising applying a reconstructing method to each multicomponent measurement to obtain additional data corresponding to source locations additional to the source locations at which the source was actuated.
- a method of processing seismic data acquired by actuating a seismic source at at least one source location and, for each source location, performing a multicomponent seismic measurement at a plurality of receiver locations comprising applying a reconstructing method to each multicomponent measurement to obtain additional data corresponding to receiver locations additional to the receiver locations at which the multicomponent measurement was performed.
- a method of processing seismic data acquired by actuating a seismic source at a plurality of source locations and, for each source location, performing a multicomponent seismic measurement at a plurality of receiver locations comprising applying a reconstructing method to each multicomponent measurement to obtain additional data corresponding to source locations additional to the source locations at which the source was actuated and/or additional data corresponding to receiver locations additional to the receiver locations at which the multicomponent measurement was performed.
- the step of applying a reconstructing method may comprise applying a reconstructing and/or interpolating filter.
- a method of acquiring seismic data for processing by a method according to the fourth aspect of the present invention comprising actuating a seismic source at a plurality of source locations and/or, for each source location, performing a multicomponent seismic measurement at at least one receiver location.
- a method of acquiring seismic data for processing by a method according to the fifth aspect of the present invention comprising actuating a seismic source at at least one source location and/or, for each source location, performing a multicomponent measurement at a plurality of receiver locations.
- a method of acquiring seismic data for processing by a method according to the sixth aspect of the present invention comprising actuating a seismic source at a plurality of source locations and/or, for each source location, performing a multicomponent measurement at a plurality of receiver locations.
- the seismic data may comprise marine seismic data and the seismic source may comprise a marine seismic source.
- Actuating a seismic source at a plurality of source locations may comprise actuating a seismic source at a plurality of source locations in turn.
- an apparatus for performing a method according to the seventh, eighth or ninth aspect of the present invention comprising at least one receiver station for performing a multicomponent seismic measurement.
- the or each receiver station may comprise multiple hydrophones to measure pressure and derive spatial derivatives (gradients) therefrom, and/or multiple geophones to measure particle velocities and derive particle velocity derivatives (gradients) or spatial pressure derivatives therefrom, and/or multiple accelerometers to measure accelerations and derive particle acceleration derivatives (gradients) or spatial pressure derivatives therefrom, and/or sensors to measure rotational motions around an axis to derive spatial derivatives of any physical fields such of particle component velocity.
- At least one receiver station may be as described above.
- At least one receiver station may be disposed on or above the seabed, and/or in at least one cable on the seabed and/or orientated vertically in the water column. At least one receiver station may be deployed in a borehole on land or below the seabed.
- At least one receiver station may comprise a cluster of pressure sensors, such as hydrophones, for example with a separation between adjacent pressure sensors in the cluster of 1 cm (or 10 cm) to 10 m, for example from 1 cm to 1 m or 5 cm to 1 m.
- a cluster of pressure sensors such as hydrophones, for example with a separation between adjacent pressure sensors in the cluster of 1 cm (or 10 cm) to 10 m, for example from 1 cm to 1 m or 5 cm to 1 m.
- a method of providing marine seismic data comprising the steps of:
- the vertical velocity component related data comprises at least one of vertical velocity component data, vertical particle displacement component data, and vertical acceleration component data.
- each of the additional locations is disposed between ones of the source locations at which the source was actuated.
- the source locations at which the source was actuated comprise a regular grid.
- the grid is preferably one of a triangular grid, a rectangular grid and a hexagonal grid.
- each multicomponent measurement comprises pressure data and particle velocity related data.
- each multicomponent measurement comprises pressure measurement and measures of derivatives of pressure with respect to first and second different horizontal directions.
- the first and second directions are preferably horizontal Cartesian coordinate directions.
- each multicomponent measurement comprises vertical particle component velocity measurement and measures of derivatives of vertical particle component velocity with respect to third and fourth different horizontal directions.
- the third and fourth directions are preferably horizontal Cartesian coordinate directions.
- Each of the derivatives is preferably a first or second or third order derivative, and the interpolating filter may be a sine squared or sine cubed or sine to the power four interpolation filter.
- Each derivative is preferably formed from a measurement of difference.
- the or each receiver location is fixed.
- the or each receiver location comprises a receiver station disposed on or above the seabed, and/or in at least one cable on the seabed and/or orientated vertically in the water column.
- the or each receiver location comprises a receiver station deployed in a borehole on land or below the seabed.
- the multicomponent measurement may be used to measure a strain field.
- a stress field may be derived from the strain field.
- the stress field may be derived from the strain field by Hooke's law.
- the method further comprises measuring at least one non-seismic geophysical field.
- the at least one non-seismic geophysical field preferably comprises at least one of an electromagnetic field, a gravity field and a magnetic field.
- a method of processing marine seismic data acquired by actuating a marine seismic source at a plurality of source locations in turn and, for each source location, performing a multicomponent seismic measurement at at least one receiver location, the method comprising applying a reconstructing and/or interpolating filter to the or each multicomponent measurement to obtain pressure data and/or vertical particle velocity component related data corresponding to source locations additional to the source locations at which the source was actuated.
- the method comprises actuating a marine seismic source at a plurality of source locations in turn and, for each source location, performing a multicomponent seismic measurement at at least one receiver location.
- the apparatus comprises at least one receiver station for performing a multicomponent seismic measurement.
- the or each receiver station comprises multiple hydrophones to measure pressure and derive spatial derivatives (gradients) therefrom, and/ or multiple geophones to measure particle velocities and derive particle velocity derivatives (gradients) therefrom, and/or multiple accelerometers to measure accelerations and derive particle acceleration derivatives (gradients) therefrom, and/or sensors to measure rotational motions around an axis to derive spatial derivatives of any physical fields.
- a program is also proposed for controlling an apparatus to perform a method as herein proposed, or which, when loaded into an apparatus, causes the apparatus to become an apparatus as herein proposed.
- the program may be carried on a carrier medium.
- the carrier medium may be a storage medium.
- the carrier medium may be a transmission medium.
- An apparatus programmed by such a program is also envisaged, as is a storage medium containing such a program.
- Figure 1 (a) illustrates fifteen hydrophones (represented by dots) in a cluster.
- the seven dots with diagonal hatching are oriented along the axes of a Cartesian coordinate system at locations (0, 0, 0), ( ⁇ 1 , 0, 0), (0, ⁇ 1 , 0) and (0, 0, ⁇ 1 ).
- the four dots with horizontal hatching are at locations ( ⁇ 1 , 0, ⁇ 1 ).
- the four dots with vertical hatching are at locations (0, ⁇ 1 , ⁇ 1 ).
- the hydrophone spacing along axes is unity.
- Figure 1 (b) illustrates the same fifteen hydrophones of Figure 1 (a), but more clearly shown in three layers of hydrophones.
- Figure 2 provides a comparison of sine and sine 2 interpolation on simple synthetic vertical component of particle velocity data, (a) Reference data (ideal result), (b) data after 2:1 decimation, (c) sine interpolation, (d) sine 2 interpolation, t - x data are displayed above their f - k spectra.
- Figure 3 is a schematic representation of a method embodying the present invention.
- Figures 4(a) and 4(b) are schematic illustrations of apparatus used in an embodiment of the present invention, in a marine and non-marine environment respectively.
- Figure 5 (a) Two different sinusoids that produce the samples marked with white dots having solid outline, (b) and (c) The red signal is sampled at the white dots with solid outline.
- the dots with diagonal hatching, vertical hatching and horizontal hatching are reconstructed values with the sampling theorems A.7, A.8, and A.9, called sine, sine 2 and sine 3 interpolation, respectively.
- the receiver spacing is often made larger than desirable.
- the recorded wavefield is spatially aliased.
- the sampling challenge is the large streamer separation, typically 50-100 m.
- OBS ocean-bottom seismic
- VC vertical cable
- the undersampling of the wavefield causes challenges for 3-D up/down decomposition or deghosting of the recorded wavefield, which is one of the data preprocessing steps applied before seismic imaging.
- multicomponent refers to a combination of sensors that includes two or more closely- spaced sensors such as a hydrophone, a geophone, an accelerometer, a rotational seismometer, a pressure derivative configuration of hydrophones, or a vertical particle velocity derivative configuration of hydrophones.
- the derivatives can be a first order derivative, a second order derivative or a higher order derivative.
- Rotational seismometers are designed for measurements of the rotational components (angular velocity) of x-, y- or z-axis oriented vibrations.
- the shot grid interval is seldom less than 50 m by 50 m to avoid excessive exploration cost.
- the 50 m by 50 m shot grid implies that any recorded pressure and vertical component of particle velocity data alone at a receiver station will be undersampled even for moderate frequencies of the source signal. For example, a seismic event with water speed will be aliased above 15 Hz.
- the six-components are the pressure and its horizontal first-order derivatives in x- and y-directions, and the vertical component of the particle velocity and this component's horizontal first-order derivatives in x- and y-directions.
- the additional recordings of second-order derivatives give a ten-component measurement.
- the multicomponent common receiver gather can be considered as a multicomponent common shot gather to which we apply 3D data reconstruction, up/down wavefield decomposition, wave-equation demultiple, and shot- profile waveequation migration to obtain a partial image of the subsurface geology. The sum of all partial images, one from each receiver in the OBS experiment, then gives the full seismic image.
- FIG. 1 Another example of a receiver system that could provide the six or ten components of the wavefield suggested for wavefield reconstruction and proper up/down wavefield decomposition would be fifteen clustered hydrophones as illustrated in Figure 1 (a) where three are staggered in the vertical direction at depths z and z ⁇ ⁇ at horizontal positions (x, y), (x ⁇ ⁇ , y), and (x, y ⁇ Ay).
- a ten hydrophone cluster could consist of two hydrophone layers at depths z and z + ⁇ , each layer having five hydrophones at horizontal positions (x, y), (x ⁇ ⁇ , y), and (x, y ⁇ Ay).
- the fifteen hydrophone cluster is similar but has an additional layer of five hydrophones at depth z - ⁇ , and compared to the ten hydrophone cluster offers redundancy and improved signal/noise ratio as the vertical derivatives of the pressure can be calculated from hydrophone measurements in three ways.
- a five-hydrophone cluster could have a single hydrophone layer at depth z, with hydrophones at horizontal positions (x, y), (x ⁇ ⁇ , y), and (x, y ⁇ Ay); such a cluster can only measure the pressure field and its horizontal derivatives.
- Figure 1 (b) shows more clearly these three layers making up the five-, ten- and fifteen-hydrophone clusters.
- the pressure wavefield can be recorded in 10 or 15 neighboring points in space, allowing all the ten sought-after components of the field to be derived by simple field differencing operations.
- Such a system can be designed and installed in a receiver station deployed on the sea floor or in a vertical cable system.
- This hydrophone layout not only allows the first order spatial derivatives to be evaluated, it also allows the computation of second order spatial derivatives.
- the art of numerical differentiation is well known in the field of mathematics and is described in standard mathematical textbooks (e.g., Abramowitz and Stegun, 1 972).
- the source wavelet has frequencies up to 30 Hz.
- the offset range is ⁇ 3 km in both horizontal directions.
- the data at the receiver plane simply consist of an upgoing wave from the source and a downgoing wave reflected at the free surface.
- Figure 2 shows the results of two interpolation and reconstruction tests for p.
- the results for v z are not shown here but are similar.
- the upper and lower parts show selected 2-D gathers in time-offset (t-x) and frequency-wavenumber (f-k) domains, respectively.
- Figure 2(a) shows modeled reference data sampled at 25 m that would be the ideal result from any reconstruction technique. These data are now decimated spatially by a factor of two so that the sampling interval is 50 m, see Figure 2(b). Aliasing is clearly visible in the f-k domain.
- wave-equation demultiple and wave-equation migration six wavefield components are acquired.
- sine 3 interpolation ten wavefield components are acquired.
- FIG. 3 A method according to an embodiment of the present invention is illustrated schematically in the flowchart of Figure 3.
- a method embodying the present invention will be described with reference first to Figure 4(a), in which the method is performed within a marine environment to provide marine seismic data.
- the method is equally applicable to a non-marine environment, and the application to a non-marine environment will then be briefly discussed with reference to Figure 4(b).
- Illustrated in Figures 4(a) and 4(b) are a sea surface 1 , a sea floor 2, a sub-surface structure 3, a seismic source 4, at least one receiver 5, and a land surface 6.
- the seismic source 4 is a marine seismic source. It is noted that the arrangements in Figures 4(a) and 4(b) are intended to be schematic rather than literal.
- An embodiment of the present invention within the context shown in Figure 4(a) relates to a method of providing marine seismic data.
- the at least one receiver 5 could be provided by towed streamer, fixed to the sea floor 2, arranged off the sea floor 2, and so on.
- the at least one receiver 5 could be provided by towed streamer, fixed to the sea floor 2, arranged off the sea floor 2, and so on.
- the details are not important within the context of an embodiment of the present invention.
- the method starts at step S1 .
- the marine seismic source 4 is actuated at a plurality of source locations in turn. This is illustrated by step S2 of Figure 3, with step S4 being a check to determine whether there are any further source locations; if there are further source locations then the method loops back to step S2, and if not then the method proceeds to step S5.
- the seismic waves from the source 4 are reflected by sub-surface structure, as up-going waves, towards the at least one receiver 5.
- a multicomponent seismic measurement is performed by the at least one receiver 5 at at least one corresponding respective receiver location (step S3 of Figure 3).
- a reconstructing (or interpolating) method (or filter) is applied to each multicomponent measurement in step S5 to obtain additional data corresponding to source locations additional to the source locations at which the source was actuated.
- the additional data are output and/or used in step S6.
- the method ends at step S7.
- the method is entirely equivalent, even if the locations of the seismic source 4 and the at least one receiver 5 are different.
- the seismic source 4 and the at least one receiver 5 are provided at or near the land surface 6.
- the at least one receiver 5 and/or the seismic source 4 may be located within at least one corresponding respective borehole rather than being arranged at or near the land surface 6. The details are not important within the context of an embodiment of the present invention.
- Such a method of providing seismic data would comprise the steps of: actuating a seismic source at at least one source location; for each source location, performing a multicomponent seismic measurement at a plurality of receiver locations; and applying a reconstructing method to each multicomponent measurement to obtain additional data corresponding to receiver locations additional to the receiver locations at which the multicomponent measurement was performed (the schematic flowchart of Figure 3 applies to this method, though step S3 would be one of performing a multicomponent seismic measurement at a plurality of receiver locations). For example, with one shot and several receivers the data registered by the receivers can be used to interpolate between them. Reconstructing in this way between multicomponent receivers, in particular reconstructing between stationary multicomponent receivers at or close to the seabed, or between receivers in vertical cables, is not envisaged by known techniques.
- Amundsen et al. (2010) discloses the same underlying technique as disclosed herein, but contains some additional analysis relevant to the present application, for example equations (12) and (13) and associated description and references thereto. Also, while Figure 2 of Amundsen et al. (2010) corresponds to Figure 2 of the present application, Amundsen et al. (2010) also contains additional examples and analysis in Figures 3 to 6 and associated description, including an additional section entitled "sine 3 interpolation" just before the Conclusion section which refers to Figure 6 of Amundsen et al. (2010).
- Aliasing is an effect that causes different continuous signals to become indistinguishable (or aliases of one another) when sampled. When this happens, the original signal cannot be uniquely reconstructed from the sampled signal.
- the two sinusoids are labeled and referred to herein as "red” and “black” (their actual color is not meaningful and/or relevant). Seven and a half cycles of the red sinusoid and two and a half cycles of the black sinusoid span an interval of 10s.
- the continuous signals are
- T red ⁇ (2 ⁇ f red t) (A.10)
- Tuack ⁇ sQxf black t) (A.1 1 )
- Hz 0.25 Hz .
- sine 2 interpolation which utilizes both the signal and its first derivative at the sampling points cannot reconstruct the signal (see dots with vertical hatching).
- sine 2 interpolation amplifies relative to the original red signal the reconstructed amplitude values of the aliased signal marked with dots having vertical hatching.
- sine 3 interpolation which uses both the signal and its first and second derivatives at the sampling points reconstructs the signal properly at the locations marked with dots having horizontal hatching. This example illustrates in a simple way why sine 3 interpolates beyond twice the Nyquist rate.
- Appendix B Data reconstruction from staggered shooting
- the source vessel In OBS swath or inline shooting the source vessel normally tows two airgun arrays while shooting 'flip-flop'. Assume that the sail lines in the x-direction are separated a cross-line distance 2 ⁇ . The source lines where the shot interval is ⁇ have a cross-line offset of ⁇ / 2 from the sail line. As a consequence of the flip-flop shooting, the shot locations of every second source line are staggered by the distance ⁇ / 2 .
- the shot point geometry is depicted in Figure 6(a) where the solid-outline white circles denote the shot positions.
- our objective is to use the sampled data from these shot positions to construct data in a desired shot grid that is regular with shot interval ⁇ / 2 .
- the first data reconstruction is performed along x-lines so that data are reconstructed at positions illustrated with circles having a shaded interior in Figure 6(b).
- Second, data reconstruction is performed along diagonal lines normal to each other as shown in
- the locations of the "solid-outline white”, “shaded interior” and “diagonally hatched” circles are the locations of the reconstructed data, which if not spatially aliased, can be transformed to the frequency-wavenumber domain for up/down wavefield decomposition.
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