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Dynamic Correction

Normal moveout (NMO) refers to the increase in reflection arrival time with source-receiver offset due to the extra travel path. The relationship between arrival time and offset is hyperbolic. NMO correction aims to flatten reflection hyperbolas by applying an offset-dependent time shift using the correct stacking velocity, allowing reflections to be stacked coherently. Proper NMO correction and velocity analysis are important for improving the signal-to-noise ratio by coherent stacking.

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Dynamic Correction

Normal moveout (NMO) refers to the increase in reflection arrival time with source-receiver offset due to the extra travel path. The relationship between arrival time and offset is hyperbolic. NMO correction aims to flatten reflection hyperbolas by applying an offset-dependent time shift using the correct stacking velocity, allowing reflections to be stacked coherently. Proper NMO correction and velocity analysis are important for improving the signal-to-noise ratio by coherent stacking.

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 Normal moveout or NMO is defined as the variation of

reflection arrival time because of source to receiver offset


(Sheriff, 1991).

 The additional time that it takes energy to travel from a


source to a flat reflecting bed and back to a receiver

 It is offset from the source point

 It is shown on a seismogram as a hyperbola.

 The "moveout" in fact, is the time from the apex of the


hyperbola to a point of interest.

 The normal moveout correction is done to make the


seismogram look the same as zero-offset seimograms.
 In reflection seismology, Normal Move Out
(NMO) describes the effect that the distance between a
seismic source and a receiver (the offset) has on the
arrival time of a reflection in the form of an increase of
time with offset.

 The relationship between arrival time and offset


is hyperbolic and it is the principal criterion that
a geophysicist uses to decide whether an event is a
reflection or not.

 It is distinguished from dip move-out (DMO), the


systematic change in arrival time due to a dipping
layer.
 The normal moveout depends on complex combination
of factors including
◦ The velocity above the reflector
◦ Offset
◦ Dip of the reflector
◦ The source receiver azimuth in relation to the dip of the
reflector.

 For a flat, horizontal reflector, the traveltime equation


is:

 where x = offset; v = velocity of the medium above the


reflecting interface; = travel time at zero offset, when
the source and receiver are in the same place.
 The Reflections are alligned using the correct velocity,
such that the events are horizontally alligned.

 Then all the separate traces are stacked (summed).

 The travel time curve of the reflections for different


offset between source and receiver is calculated using:

 From this formula the NMO-correction can be derived


and is given by:
 The Moveout ∆t is the difference in traveltime for a
receiver at a distance x from the source and
the traveltime t0 for zero-offset distance.

 The NMO-Correction depends on the offset and the


velocity.

 In contrast to the static correction, the correction along


the trace can differ.

 The NMO-correction is also called a dynamic


correction.
 To obtain a flattening of the reflections, the velocity
must have the correct value.

 When the velocity is too low, the reflection is


overcorrected; the reflection curves upwards.

 When the velocity is too high, the reflection is under-


corrected; the reflection curve curves downwards.

 Low velocities have a stronger curvature then high


velocities.
 The aim of the velocity analysis is to find the velocity,
that flattens a reflection hyperbola, which returns the
best result when stacking is applied.

 This velocity is not always the real RMS velocity.

 Therefore, a distinction is made between:


◦ vstack: the velocity that returns the best stacking result.
◦ vrms: the actual RMS-velocity of a layer.

 For a horizontal layer and small offsets, both velocities


are similar.
 When the reflectors are dipping then vstack is not
equal to the actual velocity, but equal to the velocity
that results in a similar reflection hyperbola
 Velocity can be calculated using different methods
such as:

 (t2 –x2)-Analysis.
 Constant velocity panels (CVP).
 Constant velocity stacks (CVS).
 Analysis of velocity spectra.

 For all methods, selected CMP gathers are used.


 The (t2-x2)-Analysis is based on the fact, that the
Moveout-expression for the square of t and x result in
a linear event.

 When different values for x and t are plotted, the slope


can be used to determine v2

 The square root returns the proper velocity.


 The NMO-correction is applied for a CMP using
different constant velocities.

 The results of the different velocities are compared


and the velocity that results in a flattening of the
hyperbolas is the velocity for a certain reflector.
 Similar to the CVP-method the data is NMO-corrected.

 This is carried out for several CMP gathers and the


NMO-corrected data is stacked and displayed as a
panel for each different stacking velocity.

 Stacking velocities are picked directly from the


constant velocity stack panel by choosing the velocity
that yields the best stack response at a selected event.

 CVP and CVS both have the disadvantage that the


velocity is approximated as good as the distance
between two test velocities.

 Both methods can be used for quality control and for


 analysis of noisy data.
 The velocity spectrum is obtained when the stacking
results for a range of velocities are plotted in a panel
for each velocity side by side on a plane of velocity
versus two-way travel-time.

 This can be plotted as traces or as iso-amplitudes.


This method is commonly used by interactive software
to determine the velocities.

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