@article {herrmann2008GEOPacd,
	title = {Adaptive curvelet-domain primary-multiple separation},
	journal = {Geophysics},
	volume = {73},
	number = {3},
	year = {2008},
	month = {08},
	pages = {A17-A21},
	publisher = {SEG},
	abstract = {In many exploration areas, successful separation of primaries and multiples greatly determines the quality of seismic imaging. Despite major advances made by surface-related multiple elimination (SRME), amplitude errors in the predicted multiples remain a problem. When these errors vary for each type of multiple in different ways (as a function of offset, time, and dip), they pose a serious challenge for conventional least-squares matching and for the recently introduced separation by curvelet-domain thresholding. We propose a data-adaptive method that corrects amplitude errors, which vary smoothly as a function of location, scale (frequency band), and angle. With this method, the amplitudes can be corrected by an elementwise curvelet-domain scaling of the predicted multiples. We show that this scaling leads to successful estimation of primaries, despite amplitude, sign, timing, and phase errors in the predicted multiples. Our results on synthetic and real data show distinct improvements over conventional least-squares matching in terms of better suppression of multiple energy and high-frequency clutter and better recovery of estimated primaries. \copyright2008 Society of Exploration Geophysicists},
	keywords = {Geophysics, Processing, SLIM},
	doi = {10.1190/1.2904986},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Journals/Geophysics/2008/herrmann08GEOacd/herrmann08GEOacd.pdf},
	author = {Felix J. Herrmann and Deli Wang and D. J. Verschuur}
}
@article {wang2008GEOPbws,
	title = {Bayesian wavefield separation by transform-domain sparsity promotion},
	journal = {Geophysics},
	volume = {73},
	number = {5},
	year = {2008},
	month = {07},
	pages = {1-6},
	abstract = {Successful removal of coherent noise sources greatly determines the quality of seismic imaging. Major advances were made in this direction, e.g., Surface-Related Multiple Elimination (SRME) and interferometric ground-roll removal. Still, moderate phase, timing, amplitude errors and clutter in the predicted signal components can be detrimental. Adopting a Bayesian approach along with the assumption of approximate curvelet-domain independence of the to-be-separated signal components, we construct an iterative algorithm that takes the predictions produced by for example SRME as input and separates these components in a robust fashion. In addition, the proposed algorithm controls the energy mismatch between the separated and predicted components. Such a control, which was lacking in earlier curvelet-domain formulations, produces improved results for primary-multiple separation on both synthetic and real data.},
	keywords = {curvelet transform, Geophysics, Optimization, Processing, SLIM},
	doi = {10.1190/1.2952571},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Journals/Geophysics/2008/wang08GEObws/wang08GEObws.pdf},
	html_version = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Journals/2008/wang08TRbss/paper_html/paper.html},
	author = {Deli Wang and Rayan Saab and Ozgur Yilmaz and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
@article {herrmann2008GEOPcbs,
	title = {Curvelet-based seismic data processing: a multiscale and nonlinear approach},
	journal = {Geophysics},
	volume = {73},
	number = {1},
	year = {2008},
	month = {03},
	pages = {A1-A5},
	publisher = {SEG},
	abstract = {Mitigating missing data, multiples, and erroneous migration amplitudes are key factors that determine image quality. Curvelets, little {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}plane waves,{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} complete with oscillations in one direction and smoothness in the other directions, sparsify a property we leverage explicitly with sparsity promotion. With this principle, we recover seismic data with high fidelity from a small subset (20\%) of randomly selected traces. Similarly, sparsity leads to a natural decorrelation and hence to a robust curvelet-domain primary-multiple separation for North Sea data. Finally, sparsity helps to recover migration amplitudes from noisy data. With these examples, we show that exploiting the curvelet{\textquoteright}s ability to sparsify wavefrontlike features is powerful, and our results are a clear indication of the broad applicability of this transform to exploration seismology. \copyright2008 Society of Exploration Geophysicists},
	keywords = {Acquisition, curvelet transform, Processing, SLIM},
	doi = {10.1190/1.2799517},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Journals/Geophysics/2008/herrmann08GEOcbs/herrmann08GEOcbs.pdf},
	author = {Felix J. Herrmann and Deli Wang and Gilles Hennenfent and Peyman P. Moghaddam}
}
