Reverse time migration: A prospect of seismic imaging methodology

HW Zhou, H Hu, Z Zou, Y Wo, O Youn - Earth-science reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Reverse time migration (RTM) is a seismic imaging method to map the subsurface reflectivity
using recorded seismic waveforms. The practice in exploration seismology has long …

Marchenko imaging

K Wapenaar, J Thorbecke, J Van Der Neut, F Broggini… - Geophysics, 2014 - library.seg.org
Traditionally, the Marchenko equation forms a basis for 1D inverse scattering problems. A
3D extension of the Marchenko equation enables the retrieval of the Green's response to a …

Target-oriented full-waveform inversion using Marchenko redatumed wavefields

T Cui, J Rickett, I Vasconcelos… - Geophysical Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) has demonstrated increasing success in estimating medium
properties, but its computational cost still poses challenges in moving towards high …

Elastic imaging with exact wavefield extrapolation for application to ocean-bottom 4C seismic data

M Ravasi, A Curtis - Geophysics, 2013 - library.seg.org
ABSTRACT A central component of imaging methods is receiver-side wavefield
backpropagation or extrapolation in which the wavefield from a physical source scattered at …

Vector-acoustic reverse time migration of Volve ocean-bottom cable data set without up/down decomposed wavefields

M Ravasi, I Vasconcelos, A Curtis, A Kritski - Geophysics, 2015 - library.seg.org
Methods for wavefield injection are commonly used to extrapolate seismic data in reverse
time migration (RTM). Injecting a single component of the acoustic field, for example …

Exact wavefield reconstruction on finite-difference grids with minimal memory requirements

M Vasmel, JOA Robertsson - Geophysics, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Wavefield injection in finite-difference (FD) grids can be described by the method of multiple
point sources. The method teaches how synthetically generated wavefields and wavefield …

The benefit of encoded source sequences for simultaneous source separation

MB Mueller, DF Halliday, DJ van Manen… - Geophysics, 2015 - library.seg.org
We have developed a method for simultaneous source separation using time dithering and
encoded source sequences. The source sequences are designed so that they are close to …

Wave equation processing using finite-difference propagators, Part 1: Wavefield dissection and imaging of marine multicomponent seismic data

L Amundsen, JOA Robertsson - Geophysics, 2014 - library.seg.org
Methods for wavefield injection are used in, for instance, reverse time extrapolation of shot
gathers in reverse time migration. For correct injection of recorded data without any …

[HTML][HTML] Internal absorbing boundary conditions for closed-aperture wavefield decomposition in solid media with unknown interiors

X Li, J Robertsson, A Curtis… - The Journal of the …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We present a method to create an internal numerical absorbing boundary within elastic solid
media whose properties are largely unknown and use it to create the first wavefield …

Upside-down Rayleigh-Marchenko: A practical redatuming scheme for seabed seismic acquisitions

N Wang, M Ravasi - Geophysics, 2024 - library.seg.org
Ocean-bottom seismic plays a crucial role in resource exploration and monitoring. However,
despite their undoubted potential, the use of coarse receiver geometries poses challenges …