Attenuation of random noise and enhancement of structural continuity can significantly improve the quality of seismic interpretation. We present a new technique, which aims at reducing random noise while protecting structural information. The technique is based on combining structure prediction with either similarity-mean filtering or lower-upper-middle (LUM) filtering. We use structure predict...

The identification of salt-dome boundaries in migrated seismic data volumes is important for locating petroleum reservoirs. The presence of noise in the data makes computer-aided saltdome interpretation even more challenging. We have developed noise-robust algorithms that could label boundaries of salt domes effectively and efficiently. Our research is twofold. First, we used a texture-based gr...

[1] We measure direction and amplitude of ocean-generated continuous seismic noise in the western United States. Slowness direction of the noise is determined using array beamforming, and particle motion direction from individual three-component stations. We find two surprising results. First, the noise is highly monodirectional at all sites, regardless of coastal distance. A single narrow gene...

[1] We demonstrate that the coherent information about the Earth structure can be extracted from the ambient seismic noise. We compute cross-correlations of vertical component records of several days of seismic noise at different pairs of stations separated by distances from about one hundred to more than two thousand kilometers. Coherent broadband dispersive wavetrains clearly emerge with grou...

A comparative analysis was performed on datasets from two Global Seismographic Network (GSN) stations near the South Pole, Antarctica. The results of this analysis are provided and show that there is significant reduction of the background seismic noise generated by the activities at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station as a function of distance and depth. Data gathered from site selection wor...

The ability to perceive biologically important sounds is critical to marine mammals, and acoustic disturbance through human-generated noise can interfere with their natural functions. Sounds from seismic surveys are intense and have peak frequency bands overlapping those used by baleen whales, but evidence of interference with baleen whale acoustic communication is sparse. Here we investigated ...

[1] It has been demonstrated experimentally and theoretically that an estimate of the Green’s function between two seismic stations can be obtained from the time-derivative of the long-time average cross correlation of ambient noise between these two stations. This TDGF estimate from just the noise field includes all tensor components of the Green’s function and these Green’s function estimates...

One of the most effective ways to deal with source-generated coherent noise, which often contaminates seismic reflection records, is to record the data in the field using spatial sampling small enough to avoid aliasing the highest frequency components of the lowest-velocity surface wave energy. The offending noise can then be effectively estimated and removed by application of various processin...