Designing Land 3D for Interpolation - A Case Study

Can increased processing effort be used to reduce field effort on large regional 3D seismic surveys? Is it feasible to acquire small infill 3Ds within a sparsely acquired regional 3D survey and interpolate the merged dataset to obtain a well sampled dataset? In this case study, ten individual decimated datasets and two combined sparse/infill datasets were reprocessed with and without 5D interpolation in order to evaluate the effectiveness of acquiring multi-year 3D seismic surveys.