Acquisition and Processing of Marine Seismic Data

Derman Dondurur is a research professor at the Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology at Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey. He has been working single and multichannel seismic data acquisition for more than 15 years onboard the research vessel RV K. Piri Reis, where he lead the collection and processing of marine seismic data, QC processes, and parameter determination and testing applications during the acquisition and processing. He was the coordinator of several research and investigation projects, both scientific and private, along with the private oil companies and research institutions, which included offshore seismic data acquisition and processing applications for several years.

1. Introduction2. Marine Seismic Data Acquisition3. Noise in Marine Seismics4. Fundamentals in Data Processing5. Pre-Processing6. Deconvolution7. Suppression of Multiple Reflections8. CDP Sort9. Velocity Analysis10. NMO Correction and Stacking11. Seismic Migration12. Special Methods