Seismic Acquisition to Data Information Content

The course starts with introducing the basic principles and concepts underlying exploration-seismic data acquisition and data processing, focusing on obtaining the structural information of the subsurface. Next, the physics behind the sensitivity of seismic body waves to subsurface material properties and the use of normal-incidence and angle-dependent reflection coefficients are discussed. In the second part of this course, the key issues related to seismic resolution, which include thin-bed resolution, tuning effect and interference, and the spectral properties of the earth affecting resolution, are considered. Challenges in extending the seismic bandwidth, means to address these challenges, and some prevalent approaches to optimize seismic resolution and achieve information with sub-seismic resolution are discussed using synthetic- and field-data examples.