Advanced Deblending Scheme for Independent Simultaneous Source Data

Abstract

Independent Simultaneous Source (ISS®) technology is an attractive way to provide high acquisition production rates and affordable higher density seismic imaging. In this paper, we propose an advanced deblending scheme to address the source separation requirement of ISS® data. The deblending scheme includes a) 3D low-rank decomposition based iterative noise modelling, and subtraction, b) signal-to-noise ratio map guided residual denoise and c) erratic noise attenuation. The application is tested on actual shallow water OBC dataset, which was pseudo-blended using a realistic dual vessel acquisition plan. The result shows that this advanced deblending scheme can successfully recover individual source responses. The deblended data have a minimal difference compared with the actual unblended data.