Kirchhoff modeling, inversion for reflectivity, and subsurface illumination
Kirchhoff modeling, inversion for reflectivity, and subsurface illumination
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DOI:
10.1190/1.1444812
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发表时间:
2000-07
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3.3
通讯作者:
B. Duquet;K. Marfurt;J. Dellinger
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作者:
B. Duquet;K. Marfurt;J. Dellinger
Because of its computational efficiency, prestack Kirchhoff depth migration is currently one of the most popular algorithms used in 2-D and 3-D subsurface depth imaging. Nevertheless, Kirchhoff algorithms in their typical implementation produce less than ideal results in complex terranes where multipathing from the surface to a given image point may occur, and beneath fast carbonates, salt, or volcanics through which ray‐theoretical energy cannot penetrate to illuminate underlying slower‐velocity sediments. To evaluate the likely effectiveness of a proposed seismic‐acquisition program, we could perform a forward‐modeling study, but this can be expensive. We show how Kirchhoff modeling can be defined as the mathematical transpose of Kirchhoff migration. The resulting Kirchhoff modeling algorithm has the same low computational cost as Kirchhoff migration and, unlike expensive full acoustic or elastic wave‐equation methods, only models the events that Kirchhoff migration can image. Kirchhoff modeling is also...