Internal multiple suppression by adaptive Marchenko redatuming

Recently, a novel iterative scheme was proposed to retrieve Green’s functions in an unknown medium from its single-sided reflection response and an estimate of the propagation velocity. In Marchenko imaging, these Green’s functions are used for seismic imaging with complete wavefields, including internal multiple reflections. In this way, common artifacts from these internal reflections are avoided and illumination of the subsurface can potentially be improved. However, Marchenko imaging requires accurate input data, with correct amplitudes, a deconvolved source signature, without free-surface multiples and source / receiver ghosts. Hence, a significant amount of preprocessing is required, which should be done accurately. To relax these requirements, we propose a scheme to remove artifacts due to internal multiples from inverse-extrapolated wavefields, by adaptively subtracting an estimate of these artifacts that is constructed with the Marchenko equation.