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C.P.A. Wapenaar

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Activities underground, such as gas extraction or fluid injection, can disturb the natural stresses present and can cause human-induced earthquakes along pre-existing faults. Even though they are related to engineering, these earthquakes are currently unpredictable. Monitoring an ...
Seismic imaging and monitoring with reflected waves, originally used in the oil and gas industry to identify and assess potential hydrocarbon reservoirs and later monitor their exploitation, also have diverse applications in near-surface geophysics, mineral exploration, geotherma ...

Time-lapse monitoring with virtual seismology

Applications of the Marchenko method for observing time-lapse changes in subsurface reservoirs

Monitoring time-lapse changes inside the subsurface is of great significance to many geotechnical applications, such as storage of gasses in underground geological formations. Minute differences in the seismic wavefield between an initial baseline and a subsequent monitor survey ...
Reflection seismology aims to estimate the Earth's subsurface elastic parameters for further investigation by geologists and engineers. This involves generating elastic waves using seismic sources and recording the Earth's response with receivers. The subsurface model is typicall ...
Seismic imaging is often used to interpret subsurface formations. However, images obtained by conventional methods are contaminated with internal multiples. The Marchenko method provides the means to obtain multiple-free subsurface images. Due to the high computational cost of th ...
Wave-Equation-Based Amplitude Vs Offset (WEB-AVO ) inversion solves the full elastic wave equation both for properties and for the total wavefield. It is a non-linear inversion technique that accounts for multiple scattering and mode conversions inside the target interval. When p ...

Redatuming and Quantifying Attenuation from Reflection Data Using the Marchenko Equation

A Novel Approach to Quantify Q-factor and Seismic Upscaling

Marchenko Imaging is a new technology in geophysics which enables to retrieve Green's functions at any point in the subsurface having only reflection data. This method is based on the extension of the 1D Gelfand-Levitan-Marchenko equation to a 3D medium. One of the assumptions of ...
Marine seismic acquisition is troubled with several factors of noise that can deteriorate seismic data. Marine seismic data are recorded with towed streamers that acquire the desired upgoing wavefields containing information of the geology beneath. The upgoing wavefield will trav ...