Linear Noise Removal Using Tau-P Transformation on 3D Seismic Data of Al-Samawah Area - South West of Iraq

Abstract

Tau-P linear noise attenuation filter (TPLNA) was applied on the 3D seismic dataof Al-Samawah area south west of Iraq with the aim of attenuating linear noise.TPLNA transforms the data from time domain to tau-p domain in order to increasesignal to noise ratio. Applying TPLNA produced very good results considering the3D data that usually have a large amount of linear noise from different sources andin different azimuths and directions. This processing is very important in laterinterpretation due to the fact that the signal was covered by different kinds of noisein which the linear noise take a large part.