Acquiring seismic data with multichannel, multiple-streamer and even multi-componentsystems at sea provides excellent images of the Earth. However, the cost and complexity of operations prevent their use in busy areas such as ports or in sensitive environments such as lagoons. In the latter cases, mono-channel Chirp or Boomer systems are the most viable instruments for marine surveys. The lack of multiple offsets prevents the use of standard tools for amplitude-versus-offset and velocity analysis, which are necessary for the lithological characterization of rocks, especially for the shallow sediments in offshore engineering. In this paper, we present a few recent techniques that exploit the traveltime and amplitude of multiple reflections to compensate for the offset limitation, including a new algorithm for the joint tomographic inversion of direct arrivals, primaries and multiples. We have developed a cost-effective workflow for mono-channel surveys based on a data-driven, physically consistent philosophy that attempts to approximately extract lithological parameters, such as P velocity, anelastic absorption, acoustic impedance and even density. We applied the proposed workflow to a real field experiment and obtained a semi-quantitative estimate for shallow sediments that can be used by offshore engineers.

A workflow for processing mono-channel Chirp and Boomer surveys

Vesnaver A.;Baradello L.
2023-01-01

Abstract

Acquiring seismic data with multichannel, multiple-streamer and even multi-componentsystems at sea provides excellent images of the Earth. However, the cost and complexity of operations prevent their use in busy areas such as ports or in sensitive environments such as lagoons. In the latter cases, mono-channel Chirp or Boomer systems are the most viable instruments for marine surveys. The lack of multiple offsets prevents the use of standard tools for amplitude-versus-offset and velocity analysis, which are necessary for the lithological characterization of rocks, especially for the shallow sediments in offshore engineering. In this paper, we present a few recent techniques that exploit the traveltime and amplitude of multiple reflections to compensate for the offset limitation, including a new algorithm for the joint tomographic inversion of direct arrivals, primaries and multiples. We have developed a cost-effective workflow for mono-channel surveys based on a data-driven, physically consistent philosophy that attempts to approximately extract lithological parameters, such as P velocity, anelastic absorption, acoustic impedance and even density. We applied the proposed workflow to a real field experiment and obtained a semi-quantitative estimate for shallow sediments that can be used by offshore engineers.
2023
acquisition
inversion
seismics
signal processing
tomography
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