Efficient seismic data acquisition with source separation

Details Efficient seismic data acquisition with source separation Efficient seismic data acquisition with source separation

2007-07-06

2010-12-28

Hellner, Mark (Department: 3663)

Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices

Signal transducers

Vibrator-type transmitter

C367S189000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07859945

ABSTRACT:
A method for the simultaneous operation of multiple seismic vibrators using unique modified pseudorandom sweeps and recovery of the transmission path response from each vibrator is disclosed. The vibrator sweeps are derived from pseudorandom binary sequences modified to be weakly correlated over a time window of interest, spectrally shaped and amplitude level compressed. Cross-correlation with each pilot signal is used to perform an initial separation of the composite received signal data set. Recordings of the motion of each vibrator are also cross-correlated with each pilot, windowed, and transformed to form a source cross-spectral density matrix in the frequency domain useful for source signature removal and for additional crosstalk-suppression between the separated records. After source signature removal in the frequency domain an inverse transform is applied to produce an estimate of each source-to-receiver earth response in the time domain. The method has application to both land and marine geophysical exploration.

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