Source separation for simultaneous towed-streamer marine acquisition –- a compressed sensing approach

TitleSource separation for simultaneous towed-streamer marine acquisition –- a compressed sensing approach
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2015
AuthorsRajiv Kumar, Haneet Wason, Felix J. Herrmann
JournalGeophysics
Volume80
PaginationWD73-WD88
Month11
Keywords2D, Acquisition, inversion, marine, Optimization, Rank, source separation, sparsity
Abstract

Simultaneous marine acquisition is an economic way to sample seismic data and speed up acquisition, wherein single or multiple source vessels fire sources at near-simultaneous or slightly random times, resulting in overlapping shot records. The current paradigm for simultaneous towed-streamer marine acquisition incorporates “low variability” in source firing times, i.e., 0 ≤ 1 or 2 s because the sources and receivers are moving. This results in a low degree of randomness in simultaneous data, which is challenging to separate (into its constituent sources) using compressed-sensing-based separation techniques because randomization is key to successful recovery via compressed sensing. We have addressed the challenge of source separation for simultaneous towed-streamer acquisitions via two compressed-sensing-based approaches, i.e., sparsity promotion and rank minimization. We have evaluated the performance of the sparsity-promotion- and rank-minimization-based techniques by simulating two simultaneous towed-streamer acquisition scenarios, i.e., over/under and simultaneous long offset. A field data example from the Gulf of Suez for the over/under acquisition scenario was also developed. We observed that the proposed approaches gave good and comparable recovery qualities of the separated sources, but the rank-minimization technique outperformed the sparsity-promoting technique in terms of the computational time and memory. We also compared these two techniques with the normal-moveout-based median-filtering-type approach, which had comparable results.

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URLhttps://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Journals/Geophysics/2015/kumar2015sss/kumar2015sss_revised.pdf
DOI10.1190/geo2015-0108.1
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Citation Keykumar2015sss