Course Outline

 First session:

1. Examples of multiples in seismic data, definitions of multiples, numerical modeling, synthetics datasets.

2. Multiple scattering at different scales in acoustic experiments (VSP, sonic, sea-bed profiling, crosswell, sonic). Using VSP and sonic data to gain understanding of multiples in surface seismic data.

3. Multiples in model building and imaging seismic data processing workflows. Multiples as noise or as signal.

4. Prediction methods for free-surface multiples and analysis of their properties; data-driven and model-based approaches.

5. Adaptive subtractions and results assessment

Second session:

6. Signal processing transforms and their applications to multiples

7. Up-down deconvolution and inversion methods for sea-bed and streamer data 8. Prediction methods for internal multiples; perspectives from Marchenko and Inverse Scattering Series theories.

9. Case study examples: deep-water marine, shallow-water marine, land (based on published case studies).

10. Wrap-up: historical developments, trends, emerging technologies.

For each of the ten topics above, there will be 20 min allocated, for a short presentation and time for questions and discussion. A handout and a reading list for each topic will be part of the material distributed before the class.