Projected gradient descent methods for simultaneous-source seismic data processing

• Author / Creator

  Lin, Rongzhi

• Simultaneous-source acquisition is a seismic data acquisition technology that has become quite popular in recent years due to its economic advantages. Contrary to the conventional seismic acquisition, where one records the seismic response of only one source at a time, in simultaneous source acquisition, an array of receivers record the response of more than one source. The latter leads to a saving in acquisition time, but it creates new problems in subsequent data processing stages where each seismic record must correspond to the response of one single source. The basic idea for simultaneous source data processing is to separate the sources and thereby estimate the responses one would have acquired via a conventional seismic data acquisition. Then one can adopt a traditional seismic workflow to process and invert the seismic data.
  This thesis focuses on developing inversion schemes for separating simultaneous-source data. I pay particular attention to strategies based on the Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) method with a projection synthesized via robust denoising algorithms. First, I propose adopting a robust and sparse Radon transform to define a coherence pass projection operator to guarantee solutions that honour simultaneous source records. I show that a critical improvement in convergence is attainable when the coherence pass projection originates from a robust and sparse Radon transform. The latter is a consequence of having an iterative source separation algorithm that applies intense denoising to erratic blending noise in its initial iterations.
  In addition, I also propose an inversion scheme for simultaneous-source data separation based on a robust low-rank approximation algorithm. A robust Multichannel Singular Spectrum Analysis (MSSA) filtering is adopted as the projection operator to suppress source interferences in the frequency-space domain. The MSSA method is reformulated as a robust optimization problem that includes a low-rank Hankel matrix constraint, written as the product of two matrices of lower dimension obtained by the bifactored gradient descent (BFGD) method.
  In the second part of my thesis, I explore an inversion scheme for source separation and source reconstruction that honours actual source coordinates. The proposed method adopts a projected gradient descent optimization with a reduced-rank MSSA projection operator. I propose to adopt an Interpolated-MSSA (I-MSSA) to separate and reconstruct sources in situations where the acquired simultaneous source data correspond to sources with ar- arbitrary irregular-grid coordinates. Additionally, a faster and computational-efficient MSSA (FMSSA) algorithm was applied to speed up the method.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Deblending
  • Projection
  • Robust Radon
  • Robust MSSA
  • I-MSSA

• Graduation date

  Fall 2022

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Doctor of Philosophy

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-zah9-k262

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Library with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.