Simultaneous sources deblending via frequency-varying filter in cross-spread azimuth-offset domain

Simultaneous sources acquisition, also referred to as “blended acquisition”, involves recording two or more shots simultaneously. It allows for denser spatial sampling and can greatly speed up the field data acquisition. Thus, it has potential advantage to improve seismic data quality and reduce acquisition cost. In order to achieve the goal of blended acquisition, a deblending procedure is necessary. It attenuates the interference and thus improves the resolution of the pre-stack time migration image. In this paper, we propose an efficient deblending method, which applies frequency-varying median and mean filters to cross-spread azimuth-offset gathers (XSPR-AO). The method can be used with variable window sizes according to the characteristics of the interference. The effectiveness of the method is validated by a field data example.