The core problem in seismic exploration is to invert the subsurface reflectivity from the surface recorded seismic data. However, most of the seismic inverse problems are ill-posed by nature. To overcome the ill-posedness, different regularized least squares methods are introduced in the literature. In this paper, we developed a preconditioning non-monotone gradient method, proved it converges ...

The aim of seismic inversion is mapping all of the subsurface structures from seismic data. Due to the band-limited nature of the seismic data, it is difficult to find a unique solution for seismic inversion. Deterministic methods of seismic inversion are based on try and error techniques and provide a smooth map of elastic properties, while stochastic methods produce high-resolution maps of el...

We apply iterative resolution estimation to least-squares Kirchhoff migration. Resolution plots reveal low illumination areas on seismic images and provide information about image uncertainties.

[1] We develop a theory of using difference wavefields of repeated sources to locate and quantify temporal medium change and apply the theory to locate temporal change of seismic properties beneath the Japan subduction zone using repeated earthquakes. Our theory states the difference wavefields of two repeated sources in a temporally changed medium can be equivalently treated as wavefields prop...

F our-component ocean-bottom-cable (4-COBC) seismic data acquired in deep water across the Gulf of Mexico were used to study near-sea-floor geologic characteristics of fluid-gas expulsion systems. Although these 4-C OBC data were acquired to evaluate oil and gas prospects far below the sea floor, the data have great value for studying near-sea-floor geology. The research results summarized here...

Seismic imaging, popularly known as tomography, borrowing the term from medical sciences, produces the raster image of the internal structure by combining information from a set of projections obtained at different viewing angles. To engineer high resolution and accurate solutions to mining problems, seismic traveltime tomography can yield a high resolution image of the subsurface to provide in...

Seismic interferometry processing is applied to an active seismic survey collected on ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) deployed at 900-m water depth over a carbonate/ hydrates mound in the Gulf of Mexico. Common midpoint processing and stacking of the extracted Green’s function gives the subsurface PP reflectivity, with a horizontal resolution of half the receiver spacing. The obtained seismic s...

Interpretation of subsurface geology is greatly enhanced by 3-D seismic data, and this accounts for its ubiquity in today’s search for hydrocarbons. Seismic interpretation has two fundamental disciplines at its core: seismic geomorphology and seismic stratigraphy. Plan views allow the explorationist to apply principles of geomorphology, based on analogies with modern sedimentary systems, to int...