Paper Summary
Images of primaries and multiples can be contaminated by erroneous phantom images caused by the crosstalk of multiply scattered events. Using a causality property of the events in separated up- and down-going wavefields, we present a practical crosstalk prediction and attenuation method when imaging using surface reflected wavefields. Our method does not explicitly separate multiples of any specified order. Through both synthetic and field data examples, we show how the proposed method reliably predicts the crosstalk in separated wavefield imaging. Consequently, it provides higher quality images with balanced amplitudes and improved illumination.