@mastersthesis {sharan2020THlsh,
	title = {Large scale high-frequency seismic wavefield reconstruction, acquisition via rank minimization and sparsity-promoting source estimation},
	year = {2020},
	note = {(PhD)},
	month = {11},
	school = {Georgia Institute of Technology},
	type = {phd},
	address = {Atlanta},
	abstract = {Seismic data reconstruction on a dense periodic grid from seismic data acquired on a coarse grid is a common approach followed by most of the oil \& gas companies. This approach allows them to save on operationally challenging and expensive dense seismic data acquisition. Dense seismic data is one of the key requirements for generating high-resolution images of earth{\textquoteright}s subsurface for exploration and production decisions. Based on the Compressive Sensing (CS) paradigm, low-rank matrix factorization based seismic data reconstruction methods are computationally cheaper and scalable to large datasets in comparison to sparsity-promotion based methods. The sparsity-promotion based methods are based on transformation in certain transform domains that can be computationally expensive for large datasets. Although, low-rank matrix factorization based methods perform well at lower frequencies, their performance degrades at higher frequencies due to increase in rank of approximating matrix. One of the contributions of this thesis is a recursively weighted matrix factorization approach to improve the quality of reconstructed data at higher frequencies. This recursively weighted approach exploits the similarity between adjacent frequency slices. Although, recursively weighted method improves the data reconstruction quality at higher frequencies, it can be computationally expensive for large scale seismic datasets. This is because of the interdependence of frequencies preventing simultaneous reconstruction of frequencies. Another contribution of this thesis is a computationally efficient recursively weighted framework for large scale dataset by parallelizing data reconstruction over rows of low-rank factors of each frequency slices. To reduce the cost and turnaround time of seismic data acquisition simultaneous source acquisition is adapted by the oil and gas industry in last few years. Another contribution of this thesis is a low-rank based method for simultaneous separation and reconstruction of seismic data on a dense periodic grid from large scale seismic data acquired with simultaneous source acquisition. Next part of this thesis focuses on accurate detection of fractures created by hydraulic fracturing in unconventional reservoirs for economical production of oil and gas. Fracturing of rocks during hydraulic fracturing gives rise to microseismic events, which are localized along these fractures. In this work, a sparsity-promoting microseismic source estimation framework is proposed to detect closely spaced microseismic sources along with estimation of their associated source-time functions from noisy microseismic data recorded by receivers along the earth{\textquoteright}s surface or along monitor wells. Detecting closely spaced microseismic events helps in delineating fractures and estimation of source-time function is useful in estimating fracture{\textquoteright}s origin in time. Also, source-time functions can be potentially useful for estimating the source-mechanism. Also, this method does not make any prior assumption on number of microseismic sources or shape of their source-time functions. Therefore, this method is useful for detecting microseismic sources with different source signatures and frequency content. Last part of this thesis focuses on sparsity-promoting photoacoustic imaging to detect photoabsorbers along with estimating the associated source-time functions. Traditional photoacoustic imaging can only estimate the locations of photoacoustic absorbers. Also, traditional methods require dense transducer coverage whereas sparsity-promotion based method can work with reduced transducer sampling reducing the overall data storage cost.},
	keywords = {compressed sensing, low-rank, PhD, Sparsity-promoting, wavefield reconstruction},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Thesis/2020/sharan2020THlsh/sharan2020THlsh.pdf},
	presentation = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Thesis/2020/sharan2020THlsh/sharan2020THlsh_pres.pdf},
	author = {Shashin Sharan}
}
@techreport {sharan2020lsh,
	title = {Large scale high-frequency wavefield reconstruction with recursively weighted matrix factorizations},
	number = {TR-CSE-2020-4},
	year = {2020},
	month = {10},
	abstract = {Acquiring seismic data on a regular periodic fine grid is challenging. By exploiting the low-rank approximation property of fully sampled seismic data in some transform domain, low-rank matrix completion offers a scalable way to reconstruct seismic data on a regular periodic fine grid from coarsely randomly sampled data acquired in the field. While wavefield reconstruction have been applied successfully at the lower end of the spectrum, its performance deteriorates at the higher frequencies where the low-rank assumption no longer holds rendering this type of wavefield reconstruction ineffective in situations where high resolution images are desired. We overcome this shortcoming by exploiting similarities between adjacent frequency slices explicitly. During low-rank matrix factorization, these similarities translate to alignment of subspaces of the factors, a notion we propose to employ as we reconstruct monochromatic frequency slices recursively starting at the low frequencies. While this idea is relatively simple in its core, to turn this recent insight into a successful scalable wavefield reconstruction scheme for 3D seismic requires a number of important steps. First, we need to move the weighting matrices, which encapsulate the prior information from adjacent frequency slices, from the objective to the data misfit constraint. This move considerably improves the performance of the weighted low-rank matrix factorization on which our wavefield reconstructions is based. Secondly, we introduce approximations that allow us to decouple computations on a row-by-row and column-by-column basis, which in turn allow to parallelize the alternating optimization on which our low-rank factorization relies. The combination of weighting and decoupling leads to a computationally feasible full-azimuth wavefield reconstruction scheme that scales to industry-scale problem sizes. We demonstrate the performance of the proposed parallel algorithm on a 2D field data and on a 3D synthetic dataset. In both cases our approach produces high-fidelity broadband wavefield reconstructions from severely subsampled data.},
	keywords = {5D reconstruction, compressed sensing, frequency-domain, parallel, signal processing},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/TechReport/2020/sharan2020lsh/sharan2020lsh.html},
	author = {Shashin Sharan and Yijun Zhang and Oscar Lopez and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
@presentation {wason2016SINBADFlcr,
	title = {Low-cost, randomized 3D towed-marine time-lapse seismic acquisition},
	year = {2016},
	publisher = {SINBAD},
	abstract = {Most often conventional 3D towed-marine seismic data acquisition suffers from limited illumination of subsurface due to narrow azimuth. Although, acquisition techniques such as Ocean Bottom Cable (OBC), Ocean Bottom Node (OBN), Rich-Azimuth (RAZ) acquisition, Multi-Azimuth (MAZ) acquisition have been developed to illuminate the subsurface from all possible angles, these acquisition techniques are expensive. Motivated by the design principles of compressed sensing, we acquire randomly subsampled and simultaneous (e.g., simultaneous long offset) 3D towed-marine time-lapse seismic data for few (random) azimuths, and recover densely sampled multiple azimuth baseline and monitor data via sparsity promotion and rank minimization. Our acquisition is low cost since we have subsampled measurements.},
	keywords = {Presentation, SINBAD, SINBADFALL2016, SLIM},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/SINBAD/2016/Fall/wason2016SINBADFlcr/wason2016SINBADFlcr.pdf},
	url2 = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/SINBAD/2016/Fall/wason2016SINBADFlcr/marine_acq_mask.pdf},
	author = {Rajiv Kumar and Felix Oghenekohwo and Shashin Sharan and Haneet Wason and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
