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<title>Radial trace filtering revisited: current practice and 
enhancements</title>
<author>David C. Henley</author>
<p>Filtering seismic data in the radial trace (R-T) domain is an
effective technique for attenuating coherent noise on ensembles of
seismic traces. In some applications R-T filtering can be more
effective than more established methods like K-F filtering.
Operational experience with radial trace filtering over the past three
years has led to the implementation of a new interpolation option in
the radial trace transform and to the identification of a particular
attenuation method which works well in a variety of situations. The
new interpolation scheme enables more effective removal of coherent
noise that is mildly spatially aliased, in some instances, while the
most generally effective R-T filtering method now appears to be that
of modelling the noise in the R-T domain and subtracting the modelled
noise from the original data in the X-T domain. Revisiting the 1998
Shaganappi high-resolution data set illustrates the increased
effectiveness of both the new interpolation technique and the noise
modelling/subtraction technique. A comparison to K-F filtering on
these data is also shown, in which radial trace filtering is clearly
superior.
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