DESIGN CRITERIA FOR 3-D SEISMIC ACQUISITION

The potential quality of the final migration product ('image quality') together with the associated price tag should be the ultimate criteri a to assess a planned seismic survey. In this light, we propose that t he industry should evaluate acquisition geometries in terms of: ampl itude accuracy and resolution of the migrated data (signal issue) no ise-suppression rate (noise issue) balance between shot and geophone effort (economical issue), assuming the application of a standard pro cessing sequence and given a certain macro subsurface model.