%0 Journal Article %A Liu, Jianhuan %A Draganov, Deyan %A Ghose, Ranajit %T Seismic interferometry facilitating the imaging of shallow shear‐wave reflections hidden beneath surface waves %D 2018 %J Near Surface Geophysics, %V 16 %N 3 %P 372-382 %@ 1873-0604 %R https://doi.org/10.3997/1873-0604.2018013 %I European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, %X ABSTRACT High‐resolution reflection seismics is a powerful tool that can provide the required resolution for subsurface imaging and monitoring in urban settings. Shallow seismic reflection data acquired in soil‐covered sites are often contaminated by source‐coherent surface waves and other linear moveout noises (LMON) that might be caused by, e.g., anthropogenic sources or harmonic distortion in vibroseis data. In the case of shear‐wave seismic reflection data, such noises are particularly problematic as they overlap the useful shallow reflections. We have developed new schemes for suppressing such surface‐wave noise and LMON while still preserving shallow reflections, which are of great interest to high‐resolution near‐surface imaging. We do this by making use of two techniques. First, we make use of seismic interferometry to retrieve predominantly source‐coherent surface waves and LMON. We then adaptively subtract these dominant source‐coherent surface waves and LMON from the seismic data in a separate step. We illustrate our proposed method using synthetic and field data. We compare results from our method with results from frequency–wave‐number (f‐k) filtering. Using synthetic data, we show that our schemes are robust in separating shallow reflections from source‐coherent surface waves and LMON even when they share very similar velocity and frequency contents, whereas f‐k filtering might cause undesirable artefacts. Using a field shear‐wave reflection dataset characterised by overwhelming LMON, we show that the reflectors at a very shallow depth can be imaged because of significant suppression of the LMON due to the application of the scheme that we have developed. %U https://www.earthdoc.org/content/journals/10.3997/1873-0604.2018013