Separating seismic diffractions by an improved Cook-distance singular value decomposition method

Z Chen, J Zhao, S Peng, T Sheng - Geophysics, 2023 - library.seg.org
When seismic waves encounter abrupt points of stratum or lithology in the process of
propagation, such as fault edges, pinch-out points, or the protrusion of unconformity …

Seismic diffraction separation in the near surface: Detection of high-contrast voids in unconsolidated soils

P Bakhtiari Rad, CJ Hickey - Geophysics, 2021 - library.seg.org
Seismic diffractions carry the signature of near-surface high-contrast anomalies and need to
be extracted from the data to complement the reflection processing and other geophysical …

Improving 3D water column seismic imaging using the Common Reflection Surface method

PB Rad, L Macelloni - Journal of Applied Geophysics, 2020 - Elsevier
Water column processing has gained attention in recent years since a seismic model of a
water column could assist marine data processors to correctly image the sub-seafloor …

Plane-wave destruction-based workflow for prestack diffraction separation in the shot domain

P Lin, S Peng, X Huang, Y Xiang, C Li, X Cui - Pure and Applied …, 2022 - Springer
Seismic responses generated from small-scale discontinuous geologic structures are
encoded into weak diffractions. Thus, diffraction imaging has great potential for providing …

Using common-reflection-surface stack for enhanced near-surface seismic reflection imaging: Examples from consolidated and unconsolidated environments

P Bakhtiari Rad, CJ Hickey - Geophysics, 2022 - library.seg.org
The small geophone spacing and spread lengths commonly used to investigate ultrashallow
layers in conjunction with the limited bandwidth of surface impact sources do not allow for …

Diffraction Imaging Method Using Curvelet-Domain Cascade Filter

Z Chen, J Zhao, S Peng - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2024 - Springer
Diffraction separation is crucial for high-resolution imaging of small-scale and discontinuous
geological bodies, which are associated with oil and gas migration paths, reservoir spaces …

Improving near-surface anomaly detection via a full-waveform inversion scheme integrated with seismic diffraction tomography

P Bakhtiari Rad, CJ Hickey, A Aghayan - SEG Technical Program …, 2020 - library.seg.org
Near-surface seismic data often contain high levels of coherent and non-coherent noise,
making seismic imaging a challenging task. Furthermore, the targets of interest are usually …

Improving optimum-offset data for near-surface reflection surveying using a multi-parameter stacking scheme

PB Rad, CJ Hickey - SEG International Exposition and Annual Meeting, 2019 - onepetro.org
Shallow reflection data processing is a challenging task mainly because of the high level of
coherent/non-coherent noise in the data. Non-reflective coherent events are not easy to …

3-D seismic imaging in crystalline rock environments: An approach based on diffraction focusing

KA Ahmed, S Dell, B Schwarz, D Gajewski… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Elsevier
Diffracted waves are seismic waves that backscatter from localized discontinuities in the
earth. They describe backscattering from interfaces with either a curvature locally …

Parametric Analysis of Isolated Doubled Edged Hill Diffraction Loss Based on Rounded Edge Diffraction Loss Method and Different Radius of Curvature Methods

MC Uko, UE Udoka, CP Nkwocha - Mathematical and Software …, 2017 - varepsilon.com
In this paper, parametric analysis of isolated doubled edged hill diffraction loss based on
rounded edge diffraction loss method is presented. Particularly, the variation of the …