journal article·2026-01-23Open access

Supervirtual Seismic Interferometry with Adaptive Weights to Suppress Scattered Wave

Chunming Wang, Xiaohong Chen, Shanglin Liang, Sian Hou, Jixiang Xu

Applied Sciences· Volume 16· Issue 3

Abstract

Land seismic data are always contaminated by surface waves, which demonstrate strong energy, low velocity, and long vibrations. Such noises often mask deep effective reflections, seriously reducing the data’s signal-to-noise ratio while limiting the imaging accuracy of complex deep structures and the efficiency of hydrocarbon reservoir identification. To address this critical technical bottleneck, this paper proposes a surface wave joint reconstruction method based on stationary phase analysis, combining the cross-correlation seismic interferometry method with the convolutional seismic interferometry method. This approach integrates cross-correlation and convolutional seismic interferometry techniques to achieve coordinated reconstruction of surface waves in both shot and receiver domains while introducing adaptive weight factors to optimize the reconstruction process and reduce interference from erroneous data. As a purely data-driven framework, this method does not rely on underground medium velocity models, achieving efficient noise reduction by adaptively removing reconstructed surface waves through multi-channel matched filtering. Application validation with field seismic data from the piedmont regions of western China demonstrates that this method effectively suppresses high-energy surface waves, significantly restores effective signals, improves the signal-to-noise ratio of seismic data, and greatly enhances the clarity of coherent events in stacked profiles. This study provides a reliable technical approach for noise reduction in seismic data under complex near-surface conditions, particularly suitable for hydrocarbon exploration in regions with developed scattering sources such as mountainous areas in western China. It holds significant practical application value and broad dissemination potential for advancing deep hydrocarbon resource exploration and improving the quality of complex structural imaging.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Seismic Waves and Analysis · Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques · High-pressure geophysics and materials

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Affiliations

Department of Geophysical Exploration, College of Geophysics, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China

Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina, Beijing 100083, China

Funding

National Science and Technology Major Project for Oil and Gas Exploration and Development of China · Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina

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