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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2001
Bob A. Hardage, Austin, TX (US);
James L. Simmons, Austin, TX (US);
Allen L. Gilmer, Austin, TX (US);
Vecta Technology, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A system for, and method of, orienting seismic energy sources and seismic energy receivers to yield discriminated horizontal and vertical shear modes. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an initial matrix representing wave energy produced by a selected seismic energy source and received by a selected seismic energy receiver, (2) a first transforming matrix that cooperates with the initial matrix to orient the selected seismic energy source with respect to the selected seismic energy receiver and (3) a second transforming matrix that cooperates with the initial matrix to orient the selected seismic energy receiver with respect to the selected seismic energy source, the initial matrix thereby transformed into a successive matrix containing the discriminated horizontal and vertical shear modes.