@conference {yarham2008SEGbgr,
	title = {Bayesian ground-roll seperation by curvelet-domain sparsity promotion},
	booktitle = {SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts},
	volume = {27},
	year = {2008},
	month = {11},
	pages = {2576-2580},
	publisher = {SEG},
	organization = {SEG},
	abstract = {The removal of coherent noise generated by surface waves in land based seismic is a prerequisite to imaging the subsurface. These surface waves, termed as ground roll, overlay important reflector information in both the t-x and f-k domains. Standard techniques of ground-roll removal commonly alter reflector information. We propose the use of the curvelet domain as a sparsifying transform in which to preform signal-separation techniques that preserves reflector information while increasing ground-roll removal. We look at how this method preforms on synthetic data for which we can build quantitative results and a real field data set.},
	keywords = {Presentation, SEG, SLIM},
	doi = {10.1190/1.3063878},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/SEG/2008/yarham08SEGbgr/yarham08SEGbgr.pdf},
	presentation = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/SEG/2008/yarham08SEGbgr/yarham08SEGbgr_pres.pdf},
	author = {Carson Yarham and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
@conference {yarham2008SINBADbss,
	title = {Bayesian signal separation applied to ground-roll removal},
	booktitle = {SINBAD 2008},
	year = {2008},
	abstract = {Accurate and adaptive noise removal is a critical part in seismic processing. Recent developments in signal separation methods have allowed a more flexible and accurate framework in which to perform ground roll and reflector separation. The use of a new Bayesian separation scheme developed at the SLIM group that contains control parameters to adjust for the uniqueness of specific problems is used. The sensitivity and variation of the control parameters is examined and this method is applied to synthetic and real data and the results are compared to previous methods.},
	keywords = {Presentation, SLIM},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/SINBAD/2008/yarham2008SINBADbss/yarham2008SINBADbss.pdf},
	author = {Carson Yarham}
}
@mastersthesis {yarham08THsgs,
	title = {Seismic ground-roll separation using sparsity promoting $\ell_1$ minimization},
	year = {2008},
	note = {(MSc)},
	month = {05},
	school = {The University of British Columbia},
	type = {masters},
	address = {Vancouver},
	abstract = {The removal of coherent noise generated by surface waves in land based seismic is a prerequisite to imaging the subsurface. These surface waves, termed as ground roll, overlay important reflector information in both the t-x and f-k domains. Standard techniques of ground roll removal commonly alter reflector information as a consequence of the ground roll removal. We propose the combined use of the curvelet domain as a sparsifying basis in which to perform signal separation techniques that can preserve reflector information while increasing ground roll removal. We examine two signal separation techniques, a block-coordinate relaxation method and a Bayesian separation method. The derivations and background for both methods are presented and the parameter sensitivity is examined. Both methods are shown to be effective in certain situations regarding synthetic data and erroneous surface wave predictions. The block-coordinate relaxation method is shown to have ma jor weaknesses when dealing with seismic signal separation in the presence of noise and with the production of artifacts and reflector degradation. The Bayesian separation method is shown to improve overall separation for both seismic and real data. The Bayesian separation scheme is used on a real data set with a surface wave prediction containing reflector information. It is shown to improve the signal separation by recovering reflector information while improving the surface wave removal. The abstract contains a separate real data example where both the block-coordinate relaxation method and the Bayesian separation method are compared.},
	keywords = {MSc},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Thesis/2008/yarham08THsgs.pdf},
	author = {Carson Yarham}
}
@conference {yarham2007EAGEcai,
	title = {Curvelet applications in surface wave removal},
	booktitle = {EAGE Workshop on Curvelets, contourlets, seislets, {\textellipsis} in seismic data processing - where are we and where are we going?},
	year = {2007},
	month = {06},
	abstract = {Ground roll removal of seismic signals can be a challenging prospect. Dealing with undersampleing causing aliased waves amplitudes orders of magnitude higher than reflector signals and low frequency loss of information due to band ...},
	keywords = {EAGE, SLIM},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/EAGE/2007/yarham07EAGEcai/yarham07EAGEcai.pdf},
	url2 = {http://earthdoc.eage.org/publication/publicationdetails/?publication=7590},
	author = {Carson Yarham and Gilles Hennenfent and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
@conference {yarham2007EAGEnsw,
	title = {Nonlinear surface wave prediction and separation},
	booktitle = {EAGE 2007},
	year = {2007},
	abstract = {Removal of surface waves is an integral step in seismic processing. There are many standard techniques for removal of this type of coherent noise, such as f-k filtering, but these methods are not always effective. One of the common problems with removal of surface waves is that they tend to be aliased in the frequency domain. This can make removal difficult and affect the frequency content of the reflector signals, as this signals will not be completely separated. As seen in (Hennenfent, G. and F. Herrmann, 2006, Application of stable signal recovery to seismic interpolation) interpolation can be used effectively to resample the seismic record thus dealiasing the surface waves. This separates the signals in the frequency domain allowing for a more precise and complete removal. The use of this technique with curvelet based surface wave predictions and an iterative L1 separation scheme can be used to remove surface waves from shot records more completely that with standard techniques.},
	keywords = {EAGE, Presentation, SLIM},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/EAGE/2007/yarham2007EAGEnsw/yarham2007EAGEnsw.pdf},
	author = {Carson Yarham}
}
@conference {yarham2006SEGcgrr,
	title = {Curvelet-based ground roll removal},
	booktitle = {SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts},
	volume = {25},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {2777-2782},
	publisher = {SEG},
	organization = {SEG},
	abstract = {We have effectively identified and removed ground roll through a two-step process. The first step is to identify the major components of the ground roll through various methods including multiscale separation, directional or frequency filtering or by any other method that identifies the ground roll. Given this estimate for ground roll, the recorded signal is separated during the second step through a block-coordinate relaxation method that seeks the sparsest set for weighted curvelet coefficients of the ground roll and the sought-after reflectivity. The combination of these two methods allows us to separate out the ground roll signal while preserving the reflector information. Since our method is iterative, we have control of the separation process. We successfully tested our algorithm on a real data set with a complex ground roll and reflector structure.},
	keywords = {SEG},
	doi = {10.1190/1.2370101},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/SEG/2006/yarham06SEGcgrr/yarham06SEGcgrr.pdf},
	author = {Carson Yarham and Urs Boeniger and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
@conference {yarham2004CSEGcpa,
	title = {Curvelet processing and imaging: adaptive ground roll removal},
	booktitle = {CSEG Annual Conference Proceedings},
	year = {2004},
	month = {05},
	publisher = {CSEG},
	organization = {CSEG},
	abstract = {In this paper we present examples of ground roll attenuation for synthetic and real data gathers by using Contourlet and Curvelet transforms. These non-separable wavelet transforms are locoalized both (x,t)- and (k,f)-domains and allow for adaptive seperation of signal and ground roll. Both linear and non-linear filtering are discussed using the unique properties of these basis that allow for simultaneous localization in the both domains. Eventhough, the linear filtering techniques are encouraging the true added value of these basis-function techniques becomes apparent when we use these decompositions to adaptively substract modeled ground roll from data using a non-linear thesholding procedure. We show real and synthetic examples and the results suggest that these directional-selective basis functions provide a usefull tool for the removal of coherent noise such as ground roll.},
	keywords = {CSEG, Presentation, SLIM},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/CSEG/2004/Yarham04CSEGcpa/yarham04csegcpa.pdf},
	presentation = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/CSEG/2004/Yarham04CSEGcpa/Yarham04CSEGcpa_pres.pdf},
	author = {Carson Yarham and Daniel Trad and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
@conference {yarham2004CSEGgrr,
	title = {Ground roll removal using non-separable wavelet transforms},
	booktitle = {CSEG Annual Conference Proceedings},
	year = {2004},
	keywords = {Presentation},
	presentation = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/CSEG/2004/Yarham04CSEGgrr/Yarham04CSEGgrr.pdf},
	author = {Carson Yarham and Felix J. Herrmann and Daniel Trad}
}
