Shaped high frequency vibratory source
First Claim
26. A method of processing seismic data generated by at least two seismic vibrators with a number of sweeps at least equal to the number of vibrators comprising the steps of (a) measuring a vibrator motion signal for each vibrator;
- (b) measuring the seismic signal;
(c) computing a vibrator signature for said measured vibrator motion signal;
(d) specifying a desired seismic data processing impulse response, wherein the high and low frequency portions of an amplitude spectrum of said impulse response taper to zero at a rate faster than does the high and low frequency portions of an amplitude spectrum of said vibrator motion signal;
(e) computing a deconvolution matrix in the frequency domain that separates the earth response for each vibrator and replaces the individual vibrator signatures with the desired impulse response;
(f) processing said seismic data and separating the data according to the individual vibrators using said deconvolution matrix.
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Abstract
The present invention is a method of processing seismic data in which one or more seismic vibrators are activated with one or more pilot signals and vibrator motions are recorded along with seismic data. Vibrator signatures are computed from measured vibrator motions, such as the ground force signal. A desired impulse response is specified from either a measured vibrator motion or from test data or field data from a location near the location from which the seismic data was acquired. A deconvolution filter is computed from the impulse response and the vibrator signature. Alternatively, a single separation and deconvolution filter is derived from the impulse response and from vibrator signatures from multiple vibrators and sweeps. The deconvolution or deconvolution and separation filter is used to process the seismic data. The vibrators are then moved to a new location, and the activation is repeated.
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26. A method of processing seismic data generated by at least two seismic vibrators with a number of sweeps at least equal to the number of vibrators comprising the steps of
(a) measuring a vibrator motion signal for each vibrator; -
(b) measuring the seismic signal;
(c) computing a vibrator signature for said measured vibrator motion signal;
(d) specifying a desired seismic data processing impulse response, wherein the high and low frequency portions of an amplitude spectrum of said impulse response taper to zero at a rate faster than does the high and low frequency portions of an amplitude spectrum of said vibrator motion signal;
(e) computing a deconvolution matrix in the frequency domain that separates the earth response for each vibrator and replaces the individual vibrator signatures with the desired impulse response;
(f) processing said seismic data and separating the data according to the individual vibrators using said deconvolution matrix. - View Dependent Claims (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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45-1. The method of claim 26 further comprising constructing supergathers to improve the noise separation techniques.
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