Estimation of Multiple Scattering By Iterative Inversion, Part II: Examples On Marine And Land Data

The iterative approach to the process of surface-related multiple elimination gives a more flexible way of applying this process. Optionally, the convergence of this process can be improved if an initial multiple free result can be used to start the iterations with. However, in many practical situations, only one adaptive iteration appears to be sufficient for a satisfactory result. In this paper we demonstrate for the first time the applicability of the surfacerelated multiple elimination technology for land data. Especially it is shown that proper pre-processing, such as amplitude balancing combined with appropriate noise removal techniques, is required in order to condition the data as a multiple prediction operator.