Scattering diagrams in seismic imaging: More insights into the construction of virtual events and internal multiples |
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| Authors: | Luc T Ikelle Ilana Erez Xiujun Yang |
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| Institution: | 1. Dpto. Science of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Alicante, P.O. Box 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain;2. Dpto. Physics, Systems Engineering and Signal Theory, University of Alicante, P.O. Box 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain;3. University Institute of Physics Applied to Sciences and Technologies, University of Alicante, P.O. Box 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain |
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| Abstract: | The key processes in marine seismic imaging include (i) removing from seismic data all seismic events (free-surface multiples and ghosts) which contain at least one reflection at the sea surface in their wave-propagation path, and leaving those with no reflection at the free surface (internal multiples and primaries), (ii) removing events with at least two reflections in the subsurface (internal multiples), and leaving events with only one reflection in the subsurface (primaries), and then (iii) locating the scattering points and reflectors inside the subsurface which are the sources of primaries and internal multiple events. All these processes are here explained, derived, and optimized via scattering diagrams (diagrammatica) in a way similar to the way the quantum field theory is often explained via Feynman diagrams. Our discussion of the removal of events with free-surface reflections from the data will be brief, as the diagrammatica of these events are now well understood.The main focus of this paper is the diagrammatica of internal multiples and primaries. Although these events do not contain any reflection at the sea surface, it is important to reconstruct them with scattering points near the sea surface, where seismic data are recorded. So our diagrammatica of primaries and internal multiples include events which are not directly recorded in seismic data but which can be constructed from seismic data. These events have allowed us to construct scattering diagrams of primaries and internal multiples with scattering points near the sea surface. Furthermore, these new diagrammatica of internal multiples and primaries can be used to remove internal multiples from the data. |
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