| Lecturer: |
Prof. Moshe Reshef Kaplun Building, Room 212 |
| Teaching Assistant: |
Shaked Engleberg Kaplun Building, Room 601 Shaked Engleberg. mail: shakede@mail.tau.ac.il |
| Lectures Schedule: | Tuesday, 09:00 - 12:00 |
| Final Grade: |
30% - Homework 70% - Final Exam |
The course focuses on topics in applied seismology.
Matlab is recommended for programming and visualization.
| Week # | Topics | Exercise |
| 1 | Introduction, Field geometry, Data acquisition | Exe0 - Analyze survey configuration |
| 2 | 2D geometry, Data formats, Non-optimal geometry | |
| 3 | (Cont.) | |
| 4 | Seismic sources/types, AVO, Signal processing, Array response |
Exe1 - Tapering Band-Pass Filter (pdf), Data for exercise (zip) |
| 5 | Deconvolution: Spatial sampling and aliasing, Spectral whitening, Deterministic deconvolution |
Exe2 - F-k Filter (pdf), Data for exercise (zip) |
| 6 | Deconvolution (Cont.): Spiking deconvolution, Prewhitening, Multiples analysis, Velocity analysis | |
| 7 | Velocity analysis (Cont.): Ray parameter, Dix formula, Time domain NMO correction |
Exe3 - (Spiking & Predictive) Deconvolution (pdf), Data for exercise (zip) |
| 8 | Velocity analysis (Cont.): Signal streching, Super-gather / Super-CMP | |
| 9 |
Velocity analysis (Cont.): Constant velocity stack (CVS) Static / Topography corrections: Refraction statics |
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| 10 | Static / Topography corrections: Refraction model, ABC method (plus-minus), GRM method, NMO correction from topography, Surface consistent correction | |
| 11 |
Static / Topography corrections (Cont.): Max-power maximization, Super-trace Ray parameter (tau-p): transform |
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| 12 |
Ray parameter (tau-p): applications Writing NMO routines, DMO (Dip MoveOut) |
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| 13 |
Exe4 (Final project) - NMO and Topography Correction (pdf), Data for exercise (zip) |
Exercises are submitted electronically through Moodle (see course section there for relevant tasks).
Grading Policy:Programming exercises will be graded according to the following criterions.