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In the areas where carbonate rocks expose to the near surface, there are several intractable issues in conventional surface seismic, including (1) weak reflection energy, (2) complex wave field and (3) serious static correction. Therefore, the seismic imaging result suffers significantly. However, RVSP is able to achieve reflected data with high quality since it generates seismic waves in borehole and receives seismic waves at the surface. In order to verify the applicability of RVSP technique in complex areas, this study carried out a 3D-RVSP seismic experiment in Wulunshan coal field, southwest China. Compared with the surface seismic data, RVSP data show higher signal-to-noise ratio, wider frequency band and weaker surface wave interference. In addition, two imaging methods (conventional CDP transform stack and novel equivalent-surface conversion) were implemented for RVSP data imaging. The imaging results show that the smaller and deeper structures can be revealed better by equivalent-surface conversion method than by CDP transform stack method. Hence, this study demonstrates that RVSP is an efficient method applied in the area with complex surface condition.
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The authors are grateful for the editors and reviewers’ comments. Thanks to the financial support from Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (2015QNB22, 2015XKMS036), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20160245, BK20170271), National key research and development program of China (2017YFC0804105) and A Project Funded by Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.
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Hu, M., Pan, D., Li, J. et al. 3D-RVSP experimental study above a carbonate outcrop for coal resource exploration. Acta Geophys. 67, 95–107 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-018-0239-6
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