Basic considerations for processing high-resolution marine seismic data

As faster and cheaper electronics have become available, the marine geophysics group at Utrecht have become increasingly active in the digital recording and processing of high-resolution marine seismic data. The ultimate goal is to invert the data and thereby estimate physical parameters of the sea-floor sediment. Prior to applying any inversion scheme, however, some basic "preprocessing" must be dove to remove artifacts of the recording technique employed. Some problems encountered while doing this "preprocessing" are discussed.