based on the convolutional model, a seismic trace is the convolution of seismic source wavelet and reflection coefficient series of the earth. seismic source wavelet estimation is one of the most important stages in processing and interpretation of seismic data. accurate estimation of wavelet increases the efficiency of the deconvolution and temporal resolution of seismic data. on the other han...

We determine upper mantle seismic velocity heterogeneities below Southern California from the inversion of teleseismic travel-time residuals. Teleseismic P-wave arrival times are obtained from three temporary passive experiments and Southern California Seismic Network (SCSN) stations, producing good raypath coverage. The inversion is performed using a damped least-squares conjugate gradient met...

We demonstrate that an estimate of the point-to-point seismic propagation Green Functions can be extracted from microseisms. These estimated Green’s function, obtained from 30 days of continuous seismic data from 151 seismic stations in Southern California, are used to extract the group velocity of surface waves between all station pairs in the network. The seismic data were then used in a simp...

the application of nmo (normal moveout) has been recognized as an effective method of generating quasi-zero-offset traces in traditional common-midpoint processing. artifacts of the nmo method relate to the nmo-stretch effects. conventional application of normal-moveout correction to a common-midpoint (cmp) reflection generates a stretch that increases with offset and decreases with zero-offset...

Seismic images reconstructed by migration from seismic data recorded at the surface represent the earth structure at every location in the subsurface. The data are remapped into the subsurface by using a wave equation and an estimate of the earth velocity. The velocity model is of great importance for obtaining accurate seismic images and for understanding the subsurface reservoir properties an...

refractor ambiguities are big problem in seismic refraction method especially in seismic engineering. there can be hidden subsurface geological phenomena such as hidden faults and shear zones which are not simply predicted by the travel-time graph or some geophysical methods. head wave amplitudes are used to show the resolution of refractor ambiguities and the existence of anisotropy in complex...

Many exploration and drilling applications would benefit from a robust method of integrating vertical seismic profile (VSP) and seismic data to estimate interval velocity. In practice, both VSP and seismic data contain random and correlated errors, and integration methods which fail to account for both types of error encounter problems. We present a nonlinear, tomography-like least-squares algo...

The method of simultaneous PP-PS inversion has recently been developed and tested on the 3-D Blackfoot seismic data set. This paper shows the application of this method on 3C-2D seismic data from Pikes Peak oilfield. The inversion was accomplished with a newly installed inversion module in ProMAX. After careful prestack processing, five limitedoffset stacked sections for each of the vertical an...