Blended acquisition with temporally signatured/modulated and spatially dispersed source array: Concept and method

Abstract

AbstractWe introduce a blended‐acquisition method: temporally signatured and/or modulated and spatially dispersed source array. The former, signatured and dispersed source array has much less constraints in the encoding with operational flexibility, allowing non‐uniform sampling and non‐patterned shooting both in the space and time dimension. The latter, modulated and dispersed source array allows straightforward deblending by filtering and physically separating frequency channels in the frequency domain. We demonstrate our method by synthesizing the blended acquisition followed by deblended‐data‐reconstruction processing in order to discuss the virtues. The examples show that this method could make the blended‐acquisition encoding and operations indeed simple and robust; the same is true for the deblending processing.