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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2009

Filed:

May. 01, 2006
Applicants:

Philip Christie, Fen Drayton, GB;

Zoë Lunnon, Crediton, GB;

Inventors:

Philip Christie, Fen Drayton, GB;

Zoë Lunnon, Crediton, GB;

Assignee:

WesternGeco LLC, Houston, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/36 (2006.01); G01V 1/38 (2006.01); G01V 1/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of filtering seismic signals is described using the steps of obtaining the seismic signals generated by activating a seismic source and recording signals emanating from the source at one or more receivers; defining a source signature deconvolution filter to filter the seismic signal, wherein the filter is scaled by a frequency-dependent term based on an estimate of the signal-to-noise (S/N) based on the spectral power of a signal common to a suite of angle-dependent far-field signatures normalized by the total spectral power of the signatures within the angular suite and performing a source signature deconvolution using the source signature deconvolution filter.


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