Iterative deblending using unsupervised learning with double deep neural networks

Simultaneous source acquisition technology can greatly improve seismic acquisition efficiency. However, due to continuous shooting and serious crosstalk noise of the adjacent sources in seismic data, simultaneous source data cannot be directly used in conventional data processing procedures. Therefore, simultaneous source data need to be deblended to obtain the conventional shot record. Under densely sampled sources, we have developed a novel unsupervised deep learning (UDL) method based on the double-deep neural networks for iterative inversion deblending of simultaneous source data. Our UDL, which is mainly composed of the residual neural network (R-net) and the U-net neural network, has excellent nonlinear optimization ability. The total loss function design can optimize our UDL in the correct direction and avoid the problem of overfitting. By minimizing the total loss function, the R-net and U-net branches of the UDL can extract the coherent effective signals of all sources and suppress the crosstalk noise. The most prominent advantage of our UDL method is that it does not require label data, and the training data set does not contain raw unblended data, thus solving the problem of missing training data sets. The examples with two synthetic and one field data set are used to prove the effectiveness of iterative inversion deblending of simultaneous source data based on our UDL method when sources are within a small distance of each other. By comparing our UDL method with the traditional curvelet-based and contourlet-based methods, the superiority of our method in the quality of separation results is demonstrated.