Challenges are reviewed for multiple-attenuation workflows for shallow-water surveys, including the 3D surfacerelated multiple elimination (3D SRME) workflow as well as workflows that combine wavefield extrapolation and 3D SRME. A proposed workflow improves on 3D SRME results for shallow-water surveys while aiming to remove all surfacerelated multiples rather than just a subset from those multiples.The key step in this workflow is a 3D SRME prediction of freesurface multiples using two input data sets -the recorded data and another data set preprocessed to remove a subset of waterlayer-related multiples. This approach reduces some of the amplitude distortions in the SRME model and leads to overall improvement in results. Properties of the proposed workflow are illustrated with data from two shallow-water surveys acquired in the North Sea with multimeasurement steamers. Processing of the densely sampled 3D shot gathers obtained by joint interpolation and deghosting using the multimeasurement data provides more accurate wavefield extrapolation, better constrained adaptive subtraction, and overall better multiple-attenuation results than processing data from each streamer independently.

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The concept of the over/under acquisition technique has been known and understood since the mid - 1980s. The technique was first proposed by Sønneland and Berg (1985) and first attempted by Geco. This initial attempt was unsuccessful as the two cables could not be kept vertically paired. The recent successful applications of the over / under technique have only been made possible by the development of the steerable cable. This paper describes how over / under data are acquired and some of the environmental challengers that have to be overcome during acquisition. How the data are processed, and what the technique delivers. These are illustrated via case histories that clearly demonstrate that the technology does deliver the benefits and improvements to the quality of the seismic data that the early papers on the subject predicted. Indroduction In a conventional towed-streamer marine acquisition configuration, shallow sources and shallow cables increase the high-frequency content of the seismic data needed for resolution, but attenuate the low frequencies needed for deep structural imaging and seismic inversion. Towing shallow also makes the data more susceptible to environmental noise. Deep sources and deep cables enhance the low frequencies, attenuate the high frequencies and the recorded data have a higher signal-to-ambient-noise ratio due to the more benign towing environment. A conventional towed-streamer survey design, therefore, attempts to balance these conflicting aspects to arrive at a tow depth for the sources and cables that optimizes the bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio of the data for a specific target depth or two-way traveltime, often at the expense of other shallower or deeper objectives. An over/under, towed-streamer configuration is a method of acquiring seismic data where cables are towed in pairs at two different cable depths, with one cable vertically above the other. The depths of these paired cables are typically significantly deeper than would be used for a conventional towed-streamer configuration. In conjunction with these paired cables, it is possible to acquire data with paired sources at two differing source depths. Again, the depths of these paired sources are deeper than would be used for a conventional towed-streamer configuration. The seismic data recorded by the over/under towed-streamer configuration are combined in data processing into a single dataset that has the high-frequency characteristics of conventional data recorded at a shallow towing depth plus the low-frequency characteristics of conventional data recorded at a deeper towing depth. This combination process is commonly referred to in the geophysical literature as deghosting. The current proven benefits of over/under deghosted data compared to conventional data include:A significantly broader signal bandwidth, where the lowfrequency content gives deeper penetration, and therefore, improved imaging beneath highly absorptive overburdens, such as basalt or salt.A bandwidth extension to lower frequencies making seismic inversion less dependent upon model-based methodsA simpler signal wavelet, which in conjunction with the bandwidth extension to higher frequencies gives enhanced resolving power, allowing for a more detailed stratigraphic interpretation

The basic requirements of any automated system for collecting and processing data for a diary herd are that:-- it must present the information required for day-to-day management in an easy and readily available form.- it will be justified only if the system provides useful management data that would be more costly to produce in other ways or be impractical to obtain manually- it should be built from a simple base with add-on units to a complete system, to allow for various sizes of herd, levels of technical development and cost. (Inputs could be either from manual records or automatic recorders)- it should provide information on a visual display unit, with lists printed when required- accurate identification is essential especially if automatic identification is used- it should be developed to a fully computerized farm recording system.