An analytical solution to separate P-waves and S-waves in the VSP wavefield
- Japan National Oil Corp., Chiba (Japan)
An analytical solution to separate P-waves and S-waves in the VSP wavefield is derived with combinations of the formal solution of a forward VSP modeling. Some practical applications of this method to synthetic seismograms and field data are investigated and evaluated. Little wave distortion is recognized and the weak wavefield masked by dominant wave trains can be extracted with this method. The decomposed wavefield is expressed in frequency-depth (f-z) domain as a linear combination of up to the third order differential of traces, which is approximated by trace difference sin the practical separation process. In general, five traces with single-component data are required in this process, but the same process is implemented with only three traces in the acoustic case. Two-trace extrapolation is applied to each edge of data gather in order to enhance the accuracy of trace difference. Since the formulas are developed in f-z domain, the influence of anelasticity is taken into account with simplicity and the calculation is carried out fast enough with the benefit of fast Fourier transform (FFT).
- OSTI ID:
- 80187
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941015--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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