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Abstract

Summary

Reverse-Time Migration (RTM) is routinely used for depth velocity model building and imaging in deepwater exploration around the world. In this study, we employed analytical redatuming to improve the efficiency of true-amplitude RTM for deepwater Earth model. This method analytically redatums both the source and receiver wavefields from surface to water bottom and injects the redatumed wavefield into the computational domain while preserving true-amplitude in the migrated common-shot image. By using analytic redatuming in deepwater area, the total runtime, memory and disk space requirements are significantly reduced. In addition, the image quality is improved by overcoming the singularity of point-source injection in the finite difference method, accurate positioning of source and receivers, and the reduction of numerical dispersion noise. The underlying theories developed in this paper can be extended to some other important applications such as Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI), true-amplitude layer-stripping RTM/FWI.

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2014-06-16
2024-03-28
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References

  1. Qin, Y., and R.McGarry
    , 2013.True-amplitude common-shot acoustic reverse time migration. 83rd annual SEG meeting, Expanded Abstracts, 3894–3899
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