Simultaneous Source Designature and Receiver Deghosting in the Joint Shot-receiver Domain

Summary The success of any broadband survey is dependent upon the accuracy with which acquisition and environmental factors are compensated for in processing. Such compensation ideally involves directional source designature and deghosting along with receiver deghosting. Traditionally, receiver deghosting is applied in the shot domain, and directional designature in the receiver domain. We introduce an algorithm working in the joint shot-receiver domain that simultaneously corrects for source and receiver side effects in a single process. The algorithm is shown to produce broadband results with improved spatial consistency compared with sequential directional designature and receiver deghosting on a North Sea dataset.