Imaging of primaries and multiples using a dual-sensor towed streamer

Summary Multiple reflections are commonly treated as noise in one-way imaging methods. High effort is put into research and data processing worldwide in an effort to suppress this source of noise. In a new perspective multiples are treated as valuable imaging information. Based on dual-sensor towed streamer measurement, we decompose the wavefield and apply up/down imaging of primary and multiple reflections. This approach is tested using shallow water synthetic data and finally applied on dual-sensor field data.

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