ISSN:
1365-2478
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Geosciences
,
Physics
Notes:
We analyse the geophone orientation and coupling in a data set from the North Sea. Based on the polarization of the water-break on the sea-floor, we have derived processing algorithms for determining the receiver orientation for gimballed and non-gimballed geophone systems. For a gimballed system, the problem reduces to a simple horizontal rotation. However, for a non-gimballed system, where all three geophone axes may vary due to varying acquisition conditions such as dipping sea-floor, twisting of recording cable, etc., the three orientation angles cannot be found directly from the recorded displacement vectors. Using the data redundancy within a common-receiver gather, a robust two-stage method is derived for the non-gimballed system in which all three orientations can initially be unknown. Testing on the North Sea data set acquired with a gimballed system shows that the three-component geophones in the data set are orientated satisfactorily within an error of 5°. However, there are some undesirable cross-couplings between the vertical and horizontal geophones, which results in leakage of shear-wave energy from the horizontal components to the vertical components.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2478.1999.00160.x
