Super-virtual refraction interferometry: an engineering field data example
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Hanafy, Sherif M.Alhagan, Ola
KAUST Department
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) DivisionDate
2012-07-01Online Publication Date
2012-07-01Print Publication Date
2012-10Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/594244
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The theory of super-virtual refraction interferometry (SVI) was recently developed to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of far-offset traces in refraction surveys. This enhancement of the SNR is proportional to √N and can be as high as N if an iterative procedure is used. Here N is the number of post-critical shot positions that coincides with the receiver locations. We now demonstrate the SNR enhancement of super-virtual refraction traces for one engineering-scale synthetic data and two field seismic data sets. The field data are collected over a normal fault in Saudi Arabia. Results show that both the SNR of the super-virtual data set and the number of reliable first-arrival traveltime picks are significantly increased. © 2012 European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers.Citation
Hanafy SM, Al-Hagan O (2012) Super-virtual refraction interferometry: an engineering field data example. Near Surface Geophysics 10. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/1873-0604.2012032.Sponsors
We would like to thank the 2010 sponsors of the CSIM Consortium for their support.Publisher
WileyJournal
Near Surface Geophysicsae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3997/1873-0604.2012032