Monte Carlo Wavefield Imaging of 3D Prestack Data

A-26 MONTE CARLO WAVEFIELD IMAGING OF 3D PRESTACK DATA L. CAZZOLA 1 E. BONOMI 2 L. M. BRIEGER 2 and F. ZANOLETTI 1 Abstract 1 We present a new imaging methodology based on the depth extrapolation of a single dataset obtained by randomly compressing sources and shot-gathers. In this work a Monte Carlo imaging condition was implemented with a Phase Shift Plus Interpolation (PSPI) extrapolating kernel and tested on the SEG- EAGE salt model. This study demonstrates that wavefield 3D prestack depth migration is possible for industrial applications providing high quality results in reasonable computational times. Introduction Prestack depth migration