SURFACE WAVE PREDICTION AND REMOVAL FROM SEISMIC DATA
20210311218 · 2021-10-07
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G01V2210/20
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G01V2210/3246
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Abstract
The present method predicts and separates dispersive surface waves from seismic data using dispersion estimation and is completely data-driven and computer automated and no human intervention is needed. The method is capable of predicting and suppressing surface waves from recorded seismic data without damaging the reflections. Nonlinear signal comparison (NLSC) is used to obtain a high resolution and accurate dispersion. Based on the dispersion, surface waves are predicted from the field recorded seismic data. The predicted surface waves are then subtracted from the original data.
Claims
1. A method for processing seismic data to remove interference from surface waves, comprising: obtaining and recording input multi-channel seismic data from a plurality of receivers, wherein the input multi-channel seismic data comprises a plurality of recorded seismic traces at a plurality of locations near the receivers; generating estimated surface wave phase velocities from the input multi-channel seismic data using nonlinear signal comparison (NLSC); generating predicted surface waves for each receiver by using the estimated surface wave phase velocities and performing a phase shift and local stacking analysis for seismic traces at locations near each receiver; and subtracting the predicted surface waves from the input multi-channel seismic data to generate seismic data lacking interference from surface waves.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of generating estimated surface wave phase velocities comprises using the following equation:
S.sub.π(ω)=I.sub.0(b)e.sup.−b, wherein
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of generating predicted surface waves for each receiver comprises using the following equation:
4. A method for predicting surface waves in seismic data to facilitate their removal from the seismic data, comprising: obtaining and recording input multi-channel seismic data from a plurality of receivers, wherein the input multi-channel seismic data comprises a plurality of recorded seismic traces at a plurality of locations near the receivers; generating estimated surface wave phase velocities from the input multi-channel seismic data using nonlinear signal comparison (NLSC); and generating predicted surface waves for each receiver by using the estimated surface wave phase velocities and performing a phase shift and local stacking analysis for seismic traces at locations near each receiver.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the step of generating estimated surface wave phase velocities comprises using the following equation:
S.sub.π(ω)=I.sub.0(b)e.sup.−b, wherein
6. The method of claim 4, wherein the step of generating predicted surface waves for each receiver comprises using the following equation:
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0017] The present disclosure relates to methods for processing seismic data to remove surface waves. Preferred embodiments include a method to predict and separate dispersive surface waves based on dispersion estimation that is completely data-driven. Nonlinear signal comparison (NLSC) is used to obtain a high resolution and accurate dispersion. Then based on the dispersion, surface waves are predicted from the input data using phase shift. The predicted surface waves are then subtracted from the original data.
[0018] Preferred embodiments described herein include the use of a dispersion measurement based on NLSC to estimate frequency-dependent phase velocities from seismic data. The dispersion measurement considers two time (t)-domain seismic traces, d.sub.i(t) and d.sub.j(t), recorded by two geophones, the i-th and the j-th geophones. The distance between the two geophones is X.sub.ij. The high-resolution dispersion map is obtained based on the nonlinear signal comparison (NLSC) described as:
where ω and V.sub.ph(ω) are the frequency and phase-velocity, respectively; S.sub.NLSC.sup.ij is the normalized dispersion map using the ith and jth traces; σ is a nonnegative parameter to control the resolution. As σ.fwdarw.∞, the NLSC becomes the traditional crosscorrelation. In the above equation, S.sub.NL.sup.ij and S.sub.π are the unnormalized dispersion map and the reference value for normalization, respectively. They can be represented as:
where I.sub.0 is the modified Bessel function of the zero-th order.
where σ.sub.i and σ.sub.j are the variances of the data defined as:
where T is the length of the measured time window.
[0019] From the first equation above, the S.sub.NLSC.sup.ij range is from 0 to 1. Under the special case σ.fwdarw.∞. S.sub.NLSC.sup.ij will reduce to the traditional S.sub.LSC.sup.ij. The present S.sub.NLSC.sup.ij has a uniform resolution over a wide band of frequencies and the resolution can be controlled by a single parameter σ. To apply the above dispersion analysis on the active surface seismic data with multiple channels, S.sub.NLSC.sup.ij is averaged from all possible pairs of receivers to obtain the final dispersion map.
[0020] Importantly, the present methods produce uniform high resolution dispersion at both low and high frequencies. The traditional cross-correlation based dispersion measurement technique is a special use of the NLSC method. The NLSC method allows for the estimation of phase velocities using algorithms by first picking the local maximum at each frequency. Once the phase velocities have been picked, the surface waves can be estimated at each receiver location using phase shift and local stacking. For simplification, it is assumed that the receivers are distributed along a line in the x-direction. The surface wave is predicted using:
where u.sub.surf.sup.pred(x;ω) is the predicted surface wave at the receiver located at x in the frequency ω domain; u(x+dx.sub.i;ω) is the recorded seismic trace at location x+dx.sub.i which includes both surface waves and body waves; L is a local spatial window size around x;
is the phase shift operator to correct for surface wave propagation effect; v.sub.ph(ω) is the estimated phase velocity from NLSC dispersion measurement; and a.sub.i is a weighting factor that can be referred as the local wave reconstruction operation. Using the equation above, the surface waves can be predicted at each receiver location using its neighboring traces. Finally, the predicted surface waves are subtracted from the original data.
[0021] Preferred embodiments of the data-driven surface-wave removal method include three steps. First, extract surface wave phase velocities using NLSC technique. Second, predict the surface waves at each receiver location using the estimated phase velocities and neighboring traces from the original seismic data. Third, subtract the predicted surface waves from the original data.
Example 1
[0022] This example utilized a synthetic seismic shot gather containing only surface waves. In this example, the near-surface velocity model (Xia et al. 1999) was used to show the performance of embodiments of the present method in the prediction of surface waves.
Example 2
[0023] This example utilized a synthetic seismic shot gather using elastic full wavefield. The second synthetic data was modeled using the spectral element method (SEM) (e.g., Komatitsch and Vilotte 1998, Komatitsch and Tromp 2002) by solving the full elastic wave equation. The computational model and shot gathers are shown in
[0024] To verify the fidelity of the predicted surface waves, surface waves were modeled for the fundamental mode and first overtone using the method by Herrmann (2013) and the results were compared to the surface waves predicted using the current methods.
Example 3
[0025] This example utilized field data, namely a field shot gather from a land acquisition survey.
[0026] The examples above show the successful application of the data-driven surface wave removal approach on three datasets, including two synthetic shot gathers and one field shot gather. All of these examples show that the present method is capable of predicting and suppressing surface waves from the data without damaging the reflections.
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