The essentials of shallow reflection data processing

Abstract The aims of processing shallow reflection data are no different from those established for petroleum seismology and the well known methods of this field can on the whole be adopted for high-resolution surveys. The need for rapid and economical processing is being met by the appearance of a range of PC-based packages and results can be obtained from initial data of reasonable quality which are comparable with those normal on the larger scale. This paper surveys the conventional seismic reflection processing sequence and points to some of the particular problems that can arise when it is applied to shallow data.