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Migration velocity analysis by depth image‐wave remigration: first results
Author(s) -
Schleicher J.,
Novais A.,
Munerato F.P.
Publication year - 2004
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.1365-2478.2004.00439.x
Subject(s) - slowness , wavenumber , dispersion (optics) , geology , dissipation , stability (learning theory) , reflector (photography) , mechanics , seismic migration , wave equation , optics , mathematical analysis , geophysics , physics , mathematics , seismology , light source , machine learning , computer science , thermodynamics
The image‐wave equation for depth remigration is a partial differential equation that is similar to the acoustic wave equation. In this work, we study its finite‐difference solution and possible applications. The conditions for stability, dispersion and dissipation exhibit a strong wavenumber dependence. Where higher horizontal than vertical wavenumbers are present in the data to be remigrated, stability may be difficult to achieve. Grid dispersion and dissipation can only be reduced to acceptable levels by the choice of very small grid intervals. Numerical tests demonstrate that, upon reaching the true medium velocity, remigrated images of curved reflectors propagate to the correct depth and those of diffractions collapse to single points. The latter property points towards the method's potential for use as a tool for migration velocity analysis. A first application to inhomogeneous media shows that in a horizontally layered medium, the reflector images reach their true depth when the remigration velocity equals the inverse of the mean medium slowness.