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Separation of up-going and down-going wave fields of vertical cable data

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The vertical cable method for acquiring and processing pre-stack 3-D marine seismic data is based on the technology developed by the US Navy for antisubmarine warfare. In order to achieve the maximum utilization of vertical cable field data, a new separation method of the up-going and down-going wave fields of the vertical cable data processing was developed in this paper, which is different from the separation of the down-going and up-going wave fields of normal VSP data processing. In tests with synthetic modeling data and actual field data, this newly developed method performs well and is also computationally simpler without pre-assumption conditions.

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  1. PGS Tensor Inc., 10550 Richmond Ave. Suite 300, 77042, Houston, TX

    Chuanwen Sun, John Stratton & John Anderson

  2. Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, Texas A&M University, 77843, College Station, TX

    Philip Rabinowitz

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Sun, C., Stratton, J., Anderson, J. et al. Separation of up-going and down-going wave fields of vertical cable data. Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 23, 259–268 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02847147

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