Education

CSEG DoodleTrain

Blended Data Acquisition and Processing

Instructor: D.J. (Eric) Verschuur
Date: November 1, 2010
Duration: 1 day
Members (early bird/price): $350/$450 CDN (plus GST)
Non-Members (early bird/price): $400/$500 CDN (plus GST)

Venue: Cenovus, Room 822, 8th floor, 421- 7th Ave SW, CTT (Canadian Trust Tower)
Time: 8:00am - 5:00pm

Course Description:

This course covers the main concepts of blended seismic acquisition and its impact on processing and imaging. Blended acquisition refers to seismic measurements where sources are fired such that their responses overlap in time. For some applications this is also referred to as 'simultaneous source acquisition'. The advantage is that within the same acquisition time more shots can be fired, providing a better potential resolution and signal-to-noise ratio, with the obvious disadvantage of mixed registration, creating cross-talk noise.

Course Outline:

  • Blending and simultaneous source
  • Blending in land versus marine
  • Analysis and design of blended surveys
  • Deblending algorithms
  • Integrating blending in processing, imaging and inversion
  • Future directions

Target Audience:
This course should be taken by geophysicists with some background in seismic data acquisition, processing and imaging.

You Will Learn:

  • the principles of simultaneous sources and blended acquisition
  • the impact of blended acquisition on survey design
  • processing and imaging methods for blended data
  • that in the future non-blended acquisition may become rare

Course Peculiarities:
Limited mathematics, with an emphasis on the concepts rather than the mathematical datails.

Presenter / Instructor Biography:

D.J. (Eric) Verschuur
Dirk J. (Eric) Verschuur was born in The Netherlands in 1964. He received his M.Sc. degree in 1986 and his Ph. D degree (honors) in 1991 from the Delft University of Technology (DUT), both in applied physics. From 1992 - 1997 he worked under a senior research fellowship from the Royal Dutch Academy of Art and Sciences (KNAW). In 1997 he became assistant professor and since 1999 he is an associate professor at the DUT at the laboratory of Acoustical Imaging and Sound Control. He is the project leader of the DELPHI research consortium on Multiple Removal and Structural Imaging, within which research is carried out for the oil and gas industry in the area of seismic exploration. His main interests are seismic modeling, data processing and imaging techniques. In 1997 he received SEG's J. Clarence Karcher award and in 2006 he was awarded with the Virgil Kauffman Gold medal from the SEG.