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http://dx.doi.org/10.7582/GGE.2019.22.3.116

A Case Study of Sea Bottom Detection Within the Expected Range and Swell Effect Correction for the Noisy High-resolution Air-gun Seismic Data Acquired off Yeosu  

Lee, Ho-Young (Petroleum and Marine Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.22, no.3, 2019 , pp. 116-131 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to obtain high-quality high-resolution marine seismic data, the survey needs to be carried out at very low-sea condition. However, the survey is often performed with a slight wave, which degrades the quality of data. In this case, it is possible to improve the quality of seismic data by detecting the exact location of the sea bottom signal and eliminating the influence of waves or swells automatically during data processing. However, if noise is included or the sea bottom signal is weakened due to sea waves, sea bottom detection errors are likely to occur. In this study, we applied a method reducing such errors by estimating the sea bottom location, setting a narrow detection range and detecting the sea bottom location within this range. The expected location of the sea bottom was calculated using previously detected sea bottom locations for each channel of multi-channel data. The expected location calculated in each channel is also compared and verified with expected locations of other channels in a shot gather. As a result of applying this method to the noisy 8-channel high-resolution air-gun seismic data acquired off Yeosu, the errors in selecting the strong noise before sea bottom or the strong subsurface reflected signal after the sea bottom signal are remarkably reduced and it is possible to produce the high-quality seismic section with the correction of ~ 2.5 m swell effect.
Keywords
swell effect correction; sea bottom detection (SBD); sea bottom expected range (SBER); noisy data; seismic data acquired off Yeosu;
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