The first edition of this book was a slightly modified version of my dissertation (defended in
February 2001). This second edition has been extended considerably. Many technological …

Land seismic data are contaminated by surface waves (or ground roll). These surface waves
are a form of source-generated noise and can be strongly scattered by near-surface …

A new stable and accurate, finite-difference 2D elastic seismic wave propagation modeling
algorithm is developed, with a Perfectly Matched Layer (PML) absorbing boundary condition …

Near-surface scattered waves form a major source of coherent noise in seismic land data.
Most current methods for removing these waves do not attenuate them adequately if they …

Seismic interferometry can be used to estimate interreceiver surface wave signals by cross-
correlation of signals recorded at each receiver that are emitted from a surrounding …

Current surface seismic reflection techniques based on the common-midpoint (CMP)
reflection stacking method cannot be readily used to image small objects in the first few …

A key issue in wavefield separation is to find a domain where the signal and coherent noise
are well separated from one another. A new wavefield separation algorithm, called migration …

An efficient inverse scattering method is developed for imaging near-surface heterogeneities
using scattered surface waves. Three dimensional elastodynamic wave propagation and …

Scattered ground roll is a type of noise observed in land seismic data that can be particularly
difficult to suppress. Typically, this type of noise cannot be removed using conventional …

In land seismic data, scattering from surface and near-surface heterogeneities adds
complexity to the recorded signal and masks weak primary reflections. To understand the …