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Sponsored by: United States Department of Energy

 

Project Overview

VSP Recording 

Seismic Recording

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Data Processing

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Seismic Processing Flow:

Initial seismic data processing was performed in the field on laptop computers. This processing produced daily brute stack sections for QA/QC purposes. After the field crew demobilized extensive processing was undertaken at ESRI's data processing facility.

Flow:

  • Reformat field Data - SEG-2 to SEG-Y

Raw shot (top) and preprocessed shot (bottom)

  • Vibroseis correlation with synthetic sweep (SEG-Y out)

  • Trace edit / First break mute

  • True amplitude recovery - T**n power scaling (n=1.4)

  • Geometry definition & assignment

  • Surface consistent amplitude scaling - source & receiver

  • Wavelet extraction / Minimum phase conversion

  • Surface consistent deconvolution - spiking (40 ms op)

  • Spectral whitening

  • 2-D Spatial mix (3x3 centered weighted)

  • Refraction statics (datum 205 m, Vc = 1000 m/s)

  • CDP sort

  • Velocity analysis (constant vel. stks & vel. spectra)

  • NMO / Bandpass filter / Time variant scaling

  • Stretch mute - 30 percent --------------------------->

CDP stack w/root n scaling for QC

  • Surface consistent residual statics (max. stk power algorithm, 11 tr pilot, 3 ms max static)

 

  • CDP stack w/root n scaling - adjust to final datum

 

  • Spectral whitening

 

  • Trace mix - 3 pt center weighted ------------------>

  • Migration (finite diff. 90 % stk vel

  • FX deconvolution (11 pt filter, 21 tr window)

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  • Time variant filter

(40-60-280-320 Hz) 0-200 ms

(20-30-150-200 Hz) 800-1000 ms

  • Time variant filter

(40-60-280-320 Hz) 0-200 ms

(20-30-150-200 Hz) 800-1000 ms

  • Time variant scaling

  • Time variant scaling

  • Display

  • Display


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