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Up-down deconvolution remains a powerful tool for the processing of ocean-bottom node data through its ability to efficiently attenuate free-surface multiples along with the source ghost and signature. Practical receiver-domain implementations in the frequency-wavenumber domain, however, assume layer-cake geology and can leave residual multiples ...

In this paper we will focus on the resolution of the strong imaging challenges of the area. First, we will show how the combination of Multi Wave Inversion (MWI), joint First Break (FB) and slope tomography, and Full Waveform Inversion enabled to construct a ...

Time series are analysed to detect changes and predict future behaviour. Monitoring of the surface or subsurface in Geoscience provides such time series. As new data becomes available, changes of regime are detected. They should be identified as early as possible with as few ...

Solving fault shadow imaging problems has been a long-existing topic when heavy faults are present and the seismic imaging underneath is distorted. With full-waveform inversion (FWI), they are usually less of a concern when their depths are within diving wave penetration. However, beyond diving ...

Recent advances in full-waveform inversion (FWI) algorithms have allowed it to work stably and effectively in different geological settings, especially in areas with geobodies of large impedance contrasts such as salt, despite its presently taken acoustic assumption. This has resulted in a leap in ...

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) has become the norm in velocity model building for different surveys from land to marine, and from streamers to ocean bottom nodes. FWI using wide-azimuth (WAZ) streamer data in areas with complex geologic settings can fall short of resolving the complexity ...

Most seismic surveys carried out in offshore Brazil consist of narrow-azimuth towed-streamer (NATS) acquisitions. In areas such as the South Atlantic offshore basins, the geological complexity results in illumination issues for NATS acquisitions, especially in the deep pre-salt section. Both Full-Waveform Inversion Imaging (FWI ...

Recent technology advancements have enabled us to revisit the Foz do Amazonas (2014) and Barreirinhas (2016) narrow-azimuth towed-streamer (NATS) seismic surveys and tackle specific imaging challenges in a way that the legacy processing could not. In an exploratory frontier such as the Brazilian Equatorial ...

Monument field is located in the northwest part of Walker Ridge in the Gulf of Mexico, with a Paleogene sandstone reservoir ?9 km below sea surface. The complicated overburden of low reflectivity shale bodies and complex salt geometries with steep salt flanks, multi-level weld ...