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Application of phase locking for separation of upgoing and downgoing waves in VSP data

HOSEIN HASHEMI
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Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran,
JSE 2020, 29(3), 299–304;
Submitted: 9 June 2025 | Revised: 9 June 2025 | Accepted: 9 June 2025 | Published: 9 June 2025
© 2025 by the Authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Hashemi, H., 2020. Application of phase locking for separation of upgoing and downgoing waves in VSP data. Journal of Seismic Exploration, 29: 299-304. The theories of dip steering after phase locking is disccused. This method has applicability in the seismic event separation that is primarily introduced for seismic automatic horizon picking in the interpretation phase. In this paper, primarily a deep literature review is done on the methods of VSP wavefield separation and thereafter a method based on following local dips for similar phases is presented. The output is two ensembles for upgoing and downgoing wavefiels. In these two ensembles, the wavefields are separeted and also the issue of cross dip in some samples is considered.

Keywords
VSP
phase locking
dip steering
wavefield separation
seismic processing
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