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http://dx.doi.org/10.7582/GGE.2020.23.1.013

Data Processing using Anisotropic Analysis for the Long-offset Marine Seismic Data of the East Sea, Korea  

Joo, Yonghwan (Petroleum and Marine Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Kim, Byoung-yeop (Petroleum and Marine Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.23, no.1, 2020 , pp. 13-21 More about this Journal
Abstract
The acquisition and processing of long-offset data are essential for imaging deep geological structures in marine seismic surveys. It is challenging to derive an accurate subsurface image by employing conventional data processing to long-offset data owing to the normal moveout (NMO) stretch and non-hyperbolic moveout phenomena induced by seismic anisotropy. In 2017, the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources conducted a simultaneous two-dimensional multichannel streamer and ocean-bottom seismic survey using a 5.7-km streamer and an ocean-bottom seismometer to identify the deep geological structure of the Ulleung Basin. Herein, the actual geological subsurface structure was obtained via the sequential iterative updating of the velocity and anisotropic parameters of the long-offset data obtained using a multichannel streamer, and anisotropic prestack Kirchhoff migration was performed using the updated velocity and anisotropic parameters as input parameters. As a result, the reflection energy in the long-offset traces, which showed non-hyperbolic moveout owing to seismic anisotropy, was well aligned horizontally and NMO stretches were also reduced. Thus, a more precise and accurate migrated image was obtained, minimizing the distortion of reflectors and mispositioned reflection energy.
Keywords
marine seismic survey; seismic anisotropy; long-offset data; data processing;
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