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FULL WAVE EQUATION DOWNWARD CONTINUATION OF SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA *
Author(s) -
FOSTER D. J.,
CARRION Ph. M.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
geophysical prospecting
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.735
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1365-2478
pISSN - 0016-8025
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2478.1985.tb00789.x
Subject(s) - continuation , seismogram , reflection (computer programming) , geology , wave equation , synthetic seismogram , analytic continuation , plane wave , field (mathematics) , operator (biology) , seismic wave , seismology , mathematical analysis , optics , mathematics , physics , computer science , biochemistry , chemistry , repressor , transcription factor , pure mathematics , gene , programming language
A bstract A new method for suppressing multiple reflections in seismograms is developed. It is based on a downward continuation procedure which uses the full acoustic wave equation (hyperbolic form) as a downward continuation operator. We demonstrate that the downward continuation of the recorded wave field maps a reflectivity function without multiply reflected events. The method is applied successfully to individual traces of plane‐wave decomposed (slant‐stacked) synthetic and field data.