How to Remedy Non-optimal Seismic Data by Seismic Processing

—Seismic data processing mostly takes into account the statistics inherent in the data to improve the data quality. Since some years the deterministic approach for processing shows many advantages. This approach takes into account e.g., the source signature, with the knowledge of its amplitude and phase behavior. The transformation of the signal into an optimized form is called wavelet processing. By this step an optimal input for deconvolution can be produced, which needs a minimum- delay signal to function well. The interpreter needs a signal which gives the optimum resolution, which is accomplished by the zero-phase transformation of the input signal. The combination of different input sources such as Vibroseis and Dynamite requires a phase adoption. All these procedures can be implemented via Two-Sided-Recursive (TSR-) filters. Spectral balancing can be accomplished very effectively in time domain after a minimum delay transform of the input signals. The DEKORP data suffer from a low signal/noise ratio, so that special methods for the suppression of coherent noise trains were developed. This can be done by subtractive coherency filtering. Multiple seismic reflections also can be suppressed by this method very effectively. All processing procedures developed during recent years are now fully integrated in commercial software operated by the processing center in Clausthal.