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Conventional time-space domain and frequency-space domain prediction filtering methods assume that seismic data consists of two parts, signal and random noise. That is, the so-called additive noise model. However, when estimating random noise, it is assumed that random noise can be predicted from the seismic data by convolving with a prediction error filter. That is, the source-noise model. Model inconsistencies, before and after denoising, compromise the noise attenuation and signal-preservation performances of prediction filtering methods. Therefore, this study presents an inversion-based time-space domain random noise attenuation method to overcome the model inconsistencies. In this method, a prediction error filter (PEF), is first estimated from seismic data; the filter characterizes the predictability of the seismic data and adaptively describes the seismic data’s space structure. After calculating PEF, it can be applied as a regularized constraint in the inversion process for seismic signal from noisy data. Unlike conventional random noise attenuation methods, the proposed method solves a seismic data inversion problem using regularization constraint; this overcomes the model inconsistency of the prediction filtering method. The proposed method was tested on both synthetic and real seismic data, and results from the prediction filtering method and the proposed method are compared. The testing demonstrated that the proposed method suppresses noise effectively and provides better signal-preservation performance.
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This research is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41474109) and the China National Petroleum Corporation under grant number 2016A-33.
Zhao Yu-Min received her bachelor degree in exploration technology and engineering, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, in 2014; she is presently a master’s candidate at the China University of Petroleum, Beijing, majoring in geophysics. Her research interest is seismic data processing.
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Zhao, YM., Li, GF., Wang, W. et al. Inversion-based data-driven time-space domain random noise attenuation method. Appl. Geophys. 14, 543–550 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11770-017-0647-4
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