Revisiting the Generation of Dither Times in the Context of Blended Marine Seismic Acquisition

Generating dither time tables for blended seismic acquisition is done through a call to a random number generator with an acceptance criterion to enforce operational and processing constraints. This approach is simple but optimality of the generated table and the non-feasibility of the solution for some constraints can be questionable. The paper addresses this problem and proposes a purely deterministic solution.