Initial seismic processing was performed in the field on laptop computers. After the field crew demobilized more extensive processing was undertaken at ESRI's data processing facility.

(In-the-field Data Processing and Interpretation at Ceresco)

• Vibroseis correlation with synthetic sweep
• True amplitude recovery - T**n power scaling
• Spiking deconvolution
• Scaling
• FK filter - reject linear noise
• Bandpass filter
• Trace edits / Geometry
• CDP sort
• Velocity analysis (constant vel. stks)
• NMO / Bandpass filter / AGC
• Stretch mute - 30 percent
• CDP stack w/root n scaling
• Bandpass filter
• Spectral whitening
• Trace mix - 5 pt center weighted
• AGC
• Display

• Reformat field Data - SEG-D to internal format
• Vibroseis correlation with synthetic sweep (SEG-Y out)
• Resample 0.5 ms to 1.0 ms
• Trace edit / First break mute
• True amplitude recovery - T**n power scaling
• Geometry definition & assignment
• Surface consistent amplitude scaling - source & receiver
• Spiking deconvolution
• Bandpass filter / Scaling
• FK filter / Remove Scaling
• CDP sort / Datum statics
• Velocity analysis (constant vel. stks & vel. spectra)
• NMO / Bandpass filter / AGC
• Stretch mute - 30 percent ---------> QC Stack
• Surface consistent residual statics (max. stk power algorithm, 3 ms max static)
• CDP trim statics, 1 ms maximum
• CDP stack w/root n scaling
• Spectral whitening
• FX deconvolution
• Time variant filter
• Time variant scaling - RMS 200 ms gates
• Display