Abstract
Wavelet estimation is a common step in seismic data processing and inversion. Homomorphic wavelet estimation has long utilized as a method that uses a seismic stack section with no phase presumption. Forming a stack section, normal move-out (NMO) correction must be applied on common midpoint (CMP) gathers, although it introduces NMO stretching. After stacking, residual of the NMO stretching may affect the stack section even after muting the highly stretched zone of the NMO corrected CMP gather. Presence of significant residual NMO stretching changes the spectral characteristics of data in time direction, by different degrees. Considering that in homomorphic process the wavelet is estimated based on the spectral characteristics of data, compensating for the residual NMO stretching, can improve the accuracy of the process. Here, we introduce a fast method of calculating the amount of residual NMO stretching and compensating for its effect on wavelet estimation. The proposed method needs limited prestack information like offsets and velocity function and include no prestack processing. We apply the proposed method on synthetic and real datasets and demonstrate the improvement of the estimated wavelet.
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