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Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012

Filed:

Aug. 16, 2010
Applicants:

Roald G. Van Borselen, Voorschoten, NL;

Robertus F. Hegge, Rijswijk, NL;

Inventors:

Roald G. van Borselen, Voorschoten, NL;

Robertus F. Hegge, Rijswijk, NL;

Assignee:

PGS Geophysical AS, Lysaker, NO;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An operator is applied in a frequency domain to multiple source seismic data acquired in a marine survey, with multiple sources substantially horizontally collocated and at different depths, to generate an estimate of a primary source wavefield, the operator constructed to compensate for time delays between and for different depths of the primary and secondary sources. The primary source wavefield estimate is adaptively subtracted from the multiple source seismic data to generate secondary source wavefield estimates. Another operator is applied in the frequency domain to the secondary source wavefield estimates to generate another primary source wavefield estimate, the operator constructed to compensate for time delays between and for different depths of the primary and secondary sources. The primary and secondary source estimates are used, after further iterative refinements to remove noise, to generate upgoing and downgoing wavefield components of the multiple source seismic data.


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