PREDICTIVE DECONVOLUTION

• Autocorrelation of a trace to ascertain periodicity within data

• Filter designed from the autocorrelation when convolved with data

trace predicts reverberations and multiples.

• Predicted trace is subtracted from observed trace to give prediction

error.

• Which should be the trace with the predicted reverberations and

multiples removed.

• Primaries are considered as unpredictable so they remain.

 Autocorrelation is the cross correlation of a trace with itself
Amplitude

Multiple period

Time

Primary energy Multiple energy Multiple energy

The autocorrelation function of a seismic signal is an effective tool for

determining the presence and time lag (duration) of reverberations/multiples.
Given the input x(t), we want to predict its value at some future
time (t+a), where ‘a’ is prediction lag.

(a) Recorded signature

(b) Desired output
(c) Shaping operator
(d) Shaped signature
FLOW CHART OF PREDICTIVE DECONVOLUTION
 SPIKING DECONVOLUTION

• Type of predictive deconvolution in which the operator is to predict

energy within a sample or two, or at the first zero crossing , after the
zero lag value of autocorrelation.

• Concentrate the energy of the pulse as near as possible to the front

of wavelet - turns a wavelet into spike.

• Data assumed to be minimum phase.

• Earths reflectivity series is assumed to be random and earth’s

impulse response to be minimum phase.
 VIBROSEIS DECONVOLUTION

• Vibroseis produces chirp signal which when convolved

with earths reflectivity series gives a complicated wavelet
from which earths reflectivity series is hard to interpret.

• Cross correlate this observed signal with the chirp signal

to get the approximate of earths reflectivity series.
 ADAPTIVE DECONVOLUTION

• Based on adaptive linear filtering techniques in

which the operator coefficients are updated
using a simple adaptive algoritm.
• Applicable for use in preprocessing reflection
seismic data which contains multiples with
periods that vary with travel time. So it removes
multiples with varying periods while leaving
primary reflections relatively undistorted.
Simplified diagram of a hard water-bottom model
showing the raypathsfor some of the arrivals
 Plot showing near-offsets traces for several
adjacent shotpoints from lina A with offset
equal to 914 ft and water depth equal to 300 ft

Tp=traveltime of primary reflection

Tm1=traveltime of first water-bottom arrival
 REFERENCES

• Adaptive Deconvolution-
L.J.GRIFFITHS,F.R.SMOLIKA and
L.D.TREMBLY –Geophysics Vol 42
• Yilmaaz