Offshore East Coast: Model-Based Water Layer Demultiple Breathes New Life into Old Data

October 2014

CSEG Recorder October 2014

Keith Wilkinson and Richard Bale

This CSEG Recorder article describes the recent development and application of a model-based water-layer demultiple technique. It discuss some application details such as the water-bottom Green’s function and the necessity of a two-step prediction to handle both shot-side and receiver-side multiples. This method is tested using a finite difference synthetic dataset and then applied to two different 2-D marine lines from offshore East Coast of Canada.

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