Seismic data processing

One must carefully process seismic data in order to extract the stacking velocity information. Typically, the processing involves

• noise filtering, including static removal (land data), multiple suppression (marine data), and muting
• sorting of the shot gathers into CMP gathers, which can be tedious in the case of irregular 3-D geometry of acquisition
• velocity analysis, which yields a stacking velocity model
• NMO, stacking, time migration, and/or depth migration

I plan to perform the processing of the seismic data with PROMAX, as well as with SEP in-house programs.