Migrating elastic data Aaron Stanton
Outline The seismic imaging problem Why not direct inversion? Migrating scalar wavefields Downward continuation Imaging condition Migrating vector wavefields Wavefield decomposition Wavefield recomposition
The forward problem
The forward problem
The forward problem
The forward problem
The forward problem
The forward problem model data
model data ? The inverse problem Non-linear, underdetermined (grid sizes are very tiny), and data sets are massive (tera bytes and even peta-bytes).
Linearize!
Model
Model perturbation
Born Scattering
Born Scattering
Born Scattering
Migration
Migration image = up/down
Downward continuation
Now for vector wavefields!
Vector data
Vector data
Vector data If we assume isotropy we can use Helmholtz decomposition
Helmholtz decomposition
Helmholtz decomposition Etgen, 1988
Helmholtz recomposition Etgen, 1988
Synthetic data example Marmousi 2
vp
vs
Shot gathers
LS Migration: mpp 25˚ incidence angle
Migration: mps 25˚ incidence angle
Synthetic data example Anticline model
Simulated OBC Acquisition ★ osx = 100m ; dsx = 100m ; nsx = 69 ; sz = 10m ; dgx = 8m ; gz = 550m ; recording aperture = 6608m
X-Component
Z-Component
Mpp Constant Incidence angle of 10˚
Mpp CIG @ x = 1600m
Mps Constant Incidence angle of 10˚
Mps CIG @ x = 1600m
Conclusions Migration of scalar wavefields consists of downward continuation imaging condition Migration of vector wavefields consists of wavefield separation wavefield recombination