Seismic adaptive focusing
US10534101B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 2, 2015 |
| Grant date | Jan 14, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 9, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01V2210/74
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method for use in seismic exploration comprises: accessing a set of seismic data representative of a subterranean geological formation and a subsurface attribute model of the subterranean geological formation; performing a wavefield extrapolation on the seismic data in the subsurface attribute model; applying the time-shift extended imaging condition to the extrapolated wavefields; forming shot-indexed, time shift gathers for each image pixel of the subsurface attribute model from the conditioned extrapolated wavefields; adaptively focusing the gathers; and stacking the adaptively focused gathers; and imaging the subterranean geological formation from the stacked, adaptively focused gathers. The method may, in some aspects, be realized by a computing apparatus programmed to perform the method or as a set of instructions encoded on a non-transitory program storage medium that, when executed by a computing apparatus, perform the method.
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