We discuss some processing steps of a marine 3-D data set from the Oseberg
field, North Sea. We compare the prestack depth-migrated images obtained by
the velocity fields provided by different tools: velocity spectra, reflect
ion tomography, and joint tomographic inversion of reflected and refracted
arrivals. The last ones are definitely better. We also produced a synthetic
example by modeling the estimated earth structure and the actual recording
geometry, and we reached similar conclusions.
The correlation between reflected and refracted signals may be unclear for
later arrivals because of their reciprocal interference and multiple reflec
tions. We adopt a technique based on a surgical mute in the tau-p domain. w
hich allows coupling the signals coming from the same elastic interface.