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A demonstration of prestack migration error in transversely isotropic media

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OSTI ID:89734
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  1. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)

Migration errors arise for steep events from anisotropic media when poststack migration is done with an algorithm that does not take anisotropy into account. Here, the authors demonstrate imaging errors that arise in prestack migration that ignores anisotropy present in the model. They generated data for an inhomogeneous, transversely isotropic medium with a vertical axis of symmetry (VTI), and analyzed the results of common-offset migration that ignores anisotropy.

DOE Contract Number:
FG02-89ER14079
OSTI ID:
89734
Report Number(s):
CONF-941015--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English