Local vertical seismic profiling (VSP) elastic reverse-time migration and migration resolution: Salt-flank imaging with transmitted P-to-S waves
Local vertical seismic profiling (VSP) elastic reverse-time migration and migration resolution: Salt-flank imaging with transmitted P-to-S waves
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DOI:
10.1190/1.3309460
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发表时间:
2010-03
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影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Xiang Xiao;W. Leaney
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作者:
Xiang Xiao;W. Leaney
To avoid the defocusing effects of propagating waves through salt and overburden with an inaccurate overburden velocity model, we introduce a vertical seismic profiling (VSP) local elastic reverse-time-migration (RTM) method for salt-flank imaging by transmitted P-to-S waves. This method back-projects the transmitted PS waves using a local velocity model around the well until they are in phase with the back-projected PP waves at the salt boundaries. The merits of this method are that it does not require the complex overburden and salt-body velocities and it automatically accounts for source-side statics. In addition, the method accounts for kinematic and dynamic effects, including anisotropy, absorption, and all other unknown rock effects outside of this lo-cal subsalt velocity model. Numerical tests on an elastic salt model and offset 2D VSP data in the Gulf of Mexico, using a finite-difference time-domain staggered-grid RTM scheme, partly demonstrate the effectiveness of this method over interferometry ...