Expanded Abstracts submitted to the 2014 International Annual SEG Conference and Convention from M-OSRP

Multiples: (Progress, open issues, strategy and plans)

• A.B. Weglein, "Multiples: Signal or Noise?", Invited presentation, 2014 SEG "Recent Advances and the Road Ahead: Special Session" (PDF)
• A.B. Weglein, "Multiple attenuation: recent progress, and a plan to address open, prioritized and pressing issues and challenges" (PDF)

Progress on ISS attenuation: (1) field data tests and (2) preprocessing for marine and on-shore ISS multiple attenuation effectiveness

• Qiang Fu et al, "Internal multiple attenuation on Encana data" (PDF)
• Jim Mayhan et al, "Multiple removal and prerequisite satisfaction: current status and future plans" (PDF)
• Lin Tang et al, "Predicting reference medium properties from invariances in Green’s theorem reference wave prediction: towards an on-shore near surface medium and reference wave prediction" (PDF)
• Jing Wu et al, "Elastic Green’s theorem preprocessing for on-shore internal multiple attenuation: theory and initial synthetic data tests" (PDF)
• Jinlong Yang et al, "Incorporating the source wavelet and radiation pattern into the inverse scattering series internal multiple attenuation algorithm" (PDF)

ISS for internal multiple elimination in elastic and inelastic media, directly and without subsurface (elastic or inelastic) information

• Chao Ma et al, "Including higher order terms to address a serious shortcoming/problem of the internal multiple attenuator: exemplifying the problem and its resolution" (PDF)
• Yanglei Zou et al, "The internal multiple elimination algorithm for all reflectors in a 1D earth: part 1, strengths and limitations" (PDF)
• Yanglei Zou et al, "The internal multiple elimination algorithm for all reflectors in a 1D earth: part 2, addressing the limitations" (PDF)
• Jing Wu et al, "The first test and evaluation of the inverse scattering internal multiple attenuation algorithm for an attenuating medium" (PDF)

The first wave equation migration RTM: theory and example with primaries and multiples (and without “cross-talk” false images)

• Fang Liu et al, "The first wave equation migration RTM with data consisting of primaries and internal multiples: theory and 1D examples" (PDF)