Inventors:
Svein Torleif Vaage - Houston TX, US
Ruben D. Martinez - Sugar Land TX, US
John Brittan - Walton-on-Thames, GB
Assignee:
PGS Americas, Inc. - Houston TX
International Classification:
G01V001/00
US Classification:
702 17, 702 14, 367 38, 367 43
Abstract:
A method is disclosed for separating energy resulting from actuating at least two different seismic energy sources from seismic signals. The sources are actuated to provide a variable time delay between successive actuations of a first one and a second one of the sources. The method includes sorting the seismic signals such that events therein resulting from actuations of the first source are substantially coherent in all spatial directions, coherency filtering the first source coherency sorted signals, sorting the seismic signals such that events therein resulting from actuations of the second source are substantially coherent in all spatial directions, and coherency filtering the second source coherency sorted signals.