Impact of the Topography of the Acquisition Surface on Preprocessing and Subsequent Free Surface Multiple Elimination and Depth Migration: Examining the Issue and Providing a Preprocessing Response That Accommodates a Variable Topography - Thereby Allowing Subsequent Multiple Removal and Imaging Methods to Deliver Their Promise and Potential

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dc.contributor.advisorWeglein, Arthur B.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberPinsky, Lawrence S.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberStokes, Donna W.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMorrison, Greg
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHoelting, Cory J.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLiang, Dong
dc.creatorZhang, Zhen 1990-
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-18T01:46:43Z
dc.date.available2019-09-18T01:46:43Z
dc.date.createdAugust 2017
dc.date.issued2017-08
dc.date.submittedAugust 2017
dc.date.updated2019-09-18T01:46:44Z
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation studies the influence of the topography of the seismic acquisition surface on seismic processing. This is important because in real off-shore and on-shore acquisition, there are many cases in which seismic data have to be acquired along a surface that can be far from horizontal. This dissertation provides three advances and contributions. The first examines the issues in preprocessing when the acquisition surface is assumed to be horizontal and it is actually non-horizontal. To address and solve those issues, a new preprocessing formula is derived which accommodates the topography of the measurement surface. Numerical examples compare the preprocessing results that ignore the acquisition topography, and the preprocessing results that accommodate the acquisition topography. The second investigates the effectiveness of inverse scattering series (ISS) free surface multiple elimination that requires deghosted data, where the deghosted data is input with and without the assumption of horizontal acquisition. Comparison with numerical examples demonstrates that effective deghosting, that includes and accommodates the acquisition surface, is a prerequisite for free surface multiple elimination to deliver its capability. The third looks at the subsequent effectiveness of depth imaging, that uses different free surface multiple elimination results from the second advance as input. Quantitative analysis is provided that defines the positive effect of accommodating acquisition topography in preprocessing steps on depth imaging results.
dc.description.departmentPhysics, Department of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
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dc.identifier.citationPortions of this document appear in: Zhang, Zhen, and Arthur Weglein. "2D Green’s theorem receiver deghosting in the (x-omega) domain using a depth-variable cable towards on-shore and ocean-bottom application with variable topography." In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2016, pp. 4735-4740. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2016.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10657/4800
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectSeismic processing
dc.subjectDeghosting
dc.subjectMultiple removal
dc.subjectSeismic imaging
dc.subjectSeismic acquisition
dc.titleImpact of the Topography of the Acquisition Surface on Preprocessing and Subsequent Free Surface Multiple Elimination and Depth Migration: Examining the Issue and Providing a Preprocessing Response That Accommodates a Variable Topography - Thereby Allowing Subsequent Multiple Removal and Imaging Methods to Deliver Their Promise and Potential
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
thesis.degree.departmentPhysics, Department of
thesis.degree.disciplinePhysics
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy

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