Dreamlet-based interpolation using POCS method

• Improved Jittered under-sampling strategy is proposed to achieve flexibility.
• Dreamlet transform is extended into pre-stack seismic data interpolation.
• POCS is adopted to obtain a stable solution efficiently.

Due to incomplete and non-uniform coverage of the acquisition system and dead traces, real seismic data always has some missing traces which affect the performance of a multi-channel algorithm, such as Surface-Related Multiple Elimination (SRME), imaging and inversion. Therefore, it is necessary to interpolate seismic data. Dreamlet transform has been successfully used in the modeling of seismic wave propagation and imaging, and this paper explains the application of dreamlet transform to seismic data interpolation. In order to avoid spatial aliasing in transform domain thus getting arbitrary under-sampling rate, improved Jittered under-sampling strategy is proposed to better control the dataset. With L0 constraint and Projection Onto Convex Sets (POCS) method, performances of dreamlet-based and curvelet-based interpolation are compared in terms of recovered signal to noise ratio (SNR) and convergence rate. Tests on synthetic and real cases demonstrate that dreamlet transform has superior performance to curvelet transform.