Processing steps with alternative implementations

Seismic processing is characterized by a sequence of processing steps, that is more or less fixed or standardized; however, for each of these steps there are number of alternative ways for their implementation. The choice of the most appropriate way depends on geophysical considerations; therefore the processing geophysicist should have a thorough understanding of the geophysical principles that underly these processes.
An overview of the processing steps with, for each step a number of alternative implementations, is given below:
  1. Editing


  2. Statics


  3. Stacking velocity analysis


  4. Signal-to-noise enhancement


  5. Deconvolution


  6. Multiple elimination


  7. DMO


  8. Migration


  9. Velocity model building




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