Efficient 3D wave-equation migration using virtual planar sources
Efficient 3D wave-equation migration using virtual planar sources
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DOI:
10.1190/1.2335628
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发表时间:
2006-09
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影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
B. Duquet;P. Lailly
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作者:
B. Duquet;P. Lailly
Full-volume seismic imaging is essential for a sound interpretation of structurally complex geologies. Prestack depth imaging is the most appropriate tool for such imaging, but it requires a precise and often complex velocity model. In such situations, 3D Kirchhoff prestack depth migration can be quite expensive. On the other hand, a wavefield approach, although generally tremendously expensive, is not affected by the complexity of the velocity model. We propose an affordable 3-D wavefield prestack depth-migration technique. It is designed for marine surveys for which the source-receiver azimuth is approximately constant. The technique applies a plane-wave migration algorithm to time-shifted data — quite a surprising approach when we realize that marine surveys do not allow the synthesis of genuine plane-wave data. Additionally, the imaging principle has to be modified to give results consistent with shot-record migration. Our technique also produces image gathers that allow an update of the velocity mode...