Abstract

Instability is an inherent problem with the attenuation compensation methods and has been partially relieved by using the inverse scheme. However, the conventional inversion-based attenuation compensation approaches ignore the important prior information of the seismic dip. Thus, the compensated result appears to be distorted spatial continuity and has a low signal-to-noise ratio (S/N). To alleviate this issue, we have incorporated the seismic dip information into the inversion framework and have developed a dip-constrained attenuation compensation (DCAC) algorithm. The seismic dip information, calculated from the poststack seismic data, is the key to construct a dip constraint term. Benefiting from the introduction of the seismic dip constraint, the DCAC approach maintains the numerical stability and preserves the spatial continuity of the compensated result. Synthetic and field data examples demonstrate that the proposed method can not only improve seismic resolution, but also protect the continuity of seismic data.