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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2011
Pieter Leonard Vermeer, Horsham, GB;
David Fraser Halliday, Cherry Hinton, GB;
Pieter Leonard Vermeer, Horsham, GB;
David Fraser Halliday, Cherry Hinton, GB;
WESTERNGECO L.L.C., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed to enhance surveying techniques. In one embodiment, a virtual response is estimated that corresponds to energy propagated within a subsurface region between a virtual source and a virtual source estimation receiver, wherein the subsurface region corresponds to a survey zone including: a plurality of receivers deployed within the survey zone, a first subzone having at least one actual source, a second subzone within the first subzone; the virtual source is a first receiver disposed in the second subzone; and the virtual source estimation receiver is a second receiver.