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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2009
David Monk, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Paul G Young, Perth, AU;
David Monk, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Paul G Young, Perth, AU;
Apache Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for marine seismic surveying includes towing seismic sensors in a plurality of streamers in the water, actuating a seismic energy source in the water at selected times and detecting seismic signals at the sensors resulting from the actuation of the source. A data trace is created for each of the detected signals. At least one Fresnel zone is determined for at least some of the seismic data traces. A contribution of each of the traces to each one of a plurality of bins defined in a predetermined pattern is computed, based on the Fresnel zone associated with each trace. Based on the computed contributions, a maximum lateral distance between corresponding seismic sensors is determined that will result in a contribution sum above a selected threshold.