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Including and using internal multiples in closed-loop imaging - Field data examples

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M. Davydenko *
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D. J. Verschuur
DOI:10.1190/GEO2017-0533.1delete
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Nowadays, it is more widely accepted that multiple reflections should not be considered as noise, but as signal that can provide additional illumination of the subsurface. However, one of the challenges in seismic imaging is including all multiples in the migration process for field data in a reliable manner. Although including surface multiples in imaging has been demonstrated already on field data in recent years, the proper imaging of internal multiples is less established. We have determined successful field data applications on imaging that takes all internal multiples into account. This is done via so-called full-wavefield migration (FWM), an inversion-based method in which, given the migration velocity model, the angle-dependent reflectivity is iteratively estimated by minimizing the misfit between the modeled and the measured data. Its forward model is based on a multidimensional version of the so-called Bremmer series, which allows modeling of transmission effects and any type of multiple scattering in the subsurface and, thereby, is able to minimize the data misfit correctly. An application of FWM on deepwater field data from the Norwegian North Sea validates its capabilities to explain and image internal multiples. Furthermore, it is demonstrated on the same field data that the FWM framework can also be used for data interpolation and primary/multiple separation.
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MIGRATION
OUTLOOK
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