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Processing of deep reflection data involves many sequential operations, with testing and then choice of processing parameters required at several of these stages. This paper reviews the processing sequence used for a recent BIRPS profile, and illustrates the complete range of tests performed during that processing. Although every seismic line has its own individual processing problems, the standard processes appropriate to almost all marine deep reflection data are shown here, so that this paper may serve both as a tutorial to workers entering this field and as a reivew of a standarized processing sequence presently in use at BIRPS.
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Klemperer, S.L. (1989). Processing Birps Deep Seismic Reflection Data: A Tutorial Review. In: Cassinis, R., Nolet, G., Panza, G.F. (eds) Digital Seismology and Fine Modeling of the Lithosphere. Ettore Majorana International Science Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6759-6_11
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