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ArticleKAUST Department
Center for Subsurface Imaging and Fluid ModelingEarth Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2014-08-05Online Publication Date
2014-08-05Print Publication Date
2014-08-05Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/593372
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A three dimensional least-squares Kirchhoff migration (LSM) is developed in the prestack plane-wave domain to increase the quality of migration images and the computational efficiency. Due to the limitation of current 3D marine acquisition geometries, a cylindrical-wave encoding is adopted for the narrow azimuth streamer data. To account for the mispositioning of reflectors due to errors in the velocity model, a regularized LSM is devised so that each plane-wave or cylindrical-wave gather gives rise to an individual migration image, and a regularization term is included to encourage the similarities between the migration images of similar encoding schemes. Both synthetic and field results show that: 1) plane-wave or cylindrical-wave encoding LSM can achieve both computational and IO saving, compared to shot-domain LSM, however, plane-wave LSM is still about 5 times more expensive than plane-wave migration; 2) the regularized LSM is more robust compared to LSM with one reflectivity model common for all the plane-wave or cylindrical-wave gathers.Citation
Xin Wang, Wei Dai, Yunsong Huang, and Gerard T. Schuster (2014) 3D plane-wave least-squares Kirchhoff migration. SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2014: pp. 3974-3979. doi: 10.1190/segam2014-1362.1Publisher
Society of Exploration GeophysicistsAdditional Links
http://library.seg.org/doi/abs/10.1190/segam2014-1362.1ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1190/segam2014-1362.1