Time-jittered marine acquisition: low-rank v/s sparsity

In this work we will show how simultaneous or blended acquisition can be setup as a rank-minimization (deblending) problem. The simultaneous acquisition scenario is a pragmatic time-jittered marine acquisition scheme, where a source vessel (with two airgun arrays) sails across an ocean-bottom array firing at jittered source locations and instances in time, resulting in better spatial sampling and acquisition speedup. We make comparisons with sparsity-promoting based techniques and demonstrate that rank-minimization based debelending techniques are computationally faster and memory efficient. This is joint work with Haneet Wason.