Making the Most out of the Least (Squares Migration)
Making the Most out of the Least (Squares Migration)
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10.1190/segam2014-1242.1
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2014-08
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Gaurav Dutta;Yunsong Huang;W. Dai;Xin Wang;G. Schuster
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Gaurav Dutta;Yunsong Huang;W. Dai;Xin Wang;G. Schuster
Standard migration images can suffer from migration artifacts due to 1) poor source-receiver sampling, 2) weak amplitudes caused by geometric spreading, 3) attenuation, 4) defocusing, 5) poor resolution due to limited source-receiver aperture, and 6) ringiness caused by a ringy source wavelet. To partly remedy these problems, least-squares migration (LSM), also known as linearized seismic inversion or migration deconvolution (MD), proposes to linearly invert seismic data for the reflectivity distribution. If the migration velocity model is sufficiently accurate, then LSM can mitigate many of the above problems and lead to a more resolved migration image, sometimes with twice the spatial resolution. However, there are two problems with LSM: the cost can be an order of magnitude more than standard migration and the quality of the LSM image is no better than the standard image for velocity errors of 5% or more. We now show how to get the most from leastsquares migration by reducing the cost and velocity sensitivity of LSM.