Simultaneous‐source deblending using adaptive coherence‐constrained dictionary learning and sparse approximation

The dictionary learning and sparse approximation method using the K‐singular value decomposition algorithm rely on the knowledge of the sparsity or noise variance as a constraint when it is used for data denoising. However, the determination of the sparsity or noise variance of seismic data can be tricky and sometimes unknown, especially in seismic field data. Thus, where the cardinality or the noise variance is not known, the intrinsic character of the relative coherence between the removed noise from noisy data and its learned dictionary is instead used as a constraint for the sparse approximation of simultaneous‐source seismic data. The dictionary learning is obtained using a modified orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm which uses coherence as a constraint and is referred to as coherence dictionary learning. The coherence dictionary learning is then adapted to handle the simultaneous‐source seismic data deblending. A blending structure with random time dithering of sequential source shooting is used to guarantee adequate randomness of the noise. Two‐dimensional overlap patches of the noisy data were extracted from the common receiver gather domain to train the dictionary and to determine the sparse representation of the signal. The method is tested on both synthetic and field data, and it shows adequate data recovery. Comparing the result of this method to the matching pursuit algorithm constrained by the signal sparsity and the noise variance reveals that our approach performs better at noise attenuation and yields a reasonable data recovery especially for strong seismic signal.