Optimal survey design

A system comprising:

• a plurality of seismic receivers disposed at a plurality of receiver locations of a seismic survey;
• and
• a plurality of seismic sources disposed at a plurality of source locations of the seismic survey, the plurality of receiver locations and the plurality of source locations being determined by:
• generating a source array based on the plurality of source locations of a seismic survey design for the seismic survey;
• generating a receiver array based on the plurality of receiver locations of the seismic survey design;
• generating a filtered source array by applying a frequency-wavenumber filter to the source array;
• generating a filtered receiver array by applying a frequency-wavenumber filter to the receiver array;
• generating a combined filtered array by combining the filtered receiver array and the filtered source array;
• and
• identifying any artifacts in the combined filtered array, the seismic survey design minimizing the artifacts.

A method comprising:

• obtaining a seismic survey design for a survey area;
• generating a central midpoint space summation for the seismic survey design based on at least one of responses, offsets, or azimuth relationships summed in a central midpoint space for one or more source locations and one or more receiver locations;
• obtaining a filtered spectrum by applying a frequency-wavenumber filter to the central midpoint space summation;
• identifying any artifacts in the filtered spectrum;
• and
• optimizing the seismic survey design by determining at least one of the one or more receiver locations of one more seismic receivers or the one or more source locations of one or more seismic sources, the optimized seismic survey design minimizing the identified artifacts.