Meng (1997) used the McConnell crosswell data to show that transmitted arrival traveltimes can be extracted from common receiver gathers (CRG) where the effective source is a tube wave generator. In this report I use the McElroy crosswell data to show that reflection events can be extracted from CRG’s where the effective source is a tube wave generator. This result opens the possibility that mo...

The nonlinear inverse problem for seismic reflection data is solved in the acoustic approximation. The method is based on the generalized least-squares criterion, and it can handle errors in the data set and a priori information on the model. Multiply reflected energy is naturally taken into account, as well as refracted energy or surface waves. The inverse problem can be solved using an iterat...

Ocean bottom reflectivity has been studied for a simple layered sedimentary model at shallow depth. Reflections from the bottom were determined from standard geophysical reflection data. The plane wave reflections have been obtained as bottom loss (-20log|R|) from the available reflection seismic data. Bottom loss estimated in the 10-250 Hz band are presented as functions of frequency and of an...

With seismic interferometry a virtual source can be created inside a medium, assuming a receiver is present at the position of the virtual source. Here we discuss a method that creates a virtual source inside a medium from reflection data, without needing a receiver inside the medium. Apart from the reflection data, an estimate of the direct arrivals is required. However, no information about t...

One of the most common and challenging problems in seismology is the prediction of source-receiver paths taken by seismic energy in the presence of lateral variations in wavespeed. The solution to this problem is required in many applications that exploit the high frequency component of seismic records, such as body wave tomography, migration of reflection data and earthquake relocation. The pr...

S U M M A R Y With seismic interferometry a virtual source can be created inside a medium, assuming a receiver is present at the position of the virtual source. Here we discuss a method that creates a virtual source inside a medium from reflection data, without needing a receiver inside the medium. Apart from the reflection data, an estimate of the direct arrivals is required. However, no expli...

This dissertation addresses the problem of interpolating irregularly spaced seismic exploration data to regular spatial locations. This problem arises in practice in three-dimensional seismic exploration in such applications as Kirchhoff prestack migration, multiple elimination, waveequation migration, and 4-D seismic monitoring. I formulate data regularization as a linear-estimation problem an...