Seismic Interferometry

Describes the theory and practice of seismic interferometry for academic researchers, oil industry professionals and advanced students.

Gerard Thomas Schuster (Author)

9780521169332, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 25 November 2010

274 pages
24.4 x 17 x 1.5 cm, 0.44 kg

"...this book is timely and will serve as an important reference to exploration geophysicists who are interested in seismic interferometry, as well as those professionals and students in the fields such as earthquake seismology, ultrasound imaging, and physical oceanography who work on similar problems. ... In summary, I feel that this book will be a key reference for academic researchers and exploration professionals who are interested in seismic interferometry." - Lanbo Liu, The Leading Edge

Seismic interferometry is an exciting field in geophysics utilising multiple scattering events to provide unprecedented views of the Earth's subsurface. This is a comprehensive book describing the theory and practice of seismic interferometry with an emphasis on applications in exploration seismology. Exercises are provided at the end of each chapter, and the text is supplemented by online MATLAB codes that illustrate important ideas and allow readers to generate synthetic traces and invert these to determine the Earth's reflectivity structure. Later chapters reinforce these principles by deriving the rigorous mathematics of seismic interferometry. Incorporating examples that apply interferometric imaging to synthetic and field data, from applied geophysics and earthquake seismology, this book is a valuable reference for academic researchers and oil industry professionals. It can also be used to teach a one-semester course for advanced students in geophysics and petroleum engineering.

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Reciprocity equations of convolution and correlation types
3. VSP?SWP correlation transform
4. VSP?SSP correlation transform
5. VSP?SSP convolution transform
6. SSP?SSP correlation transform
7. VSP?VSP correlation transform
8. SSP? VSP? SWP transforms
9. Traveltime interferometry
10. Stochastic interferometry
11. Interferometric source estimation
12. Body wave earthquake interferometry
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Economic geology [RBGL], Earth sciences [RB], Geophysics [PHVG]