While the main deliverables from seismic data processing — subsurface images and property cubes — are obtained most often from processing of a subset of the data (primary reflections, i.e. reflection events with a single bounce in the subsurface), the quality of such deliverables depends critically on the ability to handle and/or suppress non-primary events and in particular, multiple reflections.
Some 20 years ago, at the dawn of 3D seismic depth imaging, editors Hill et al. (1999) wrote in a special section on multiples in The Leading Edge that “the quest for multiple-attenuation techniques has a history that parallels that...
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