Inspiration for Seismic Diffraction Modelling, Separation, and Velocity in Depth Imaging

Coal seismic diffraction fault imaging: Results from numerical modelling

Modern underground coal mining requires certainty about geological faults and other structural features for safety reasons. Even a fault with a throw of a few metres can create safety issues and lead to costly delays in mine production. To ensure there are no unwelcome surprises concerning seam conditions during mining, seismic reflection surveys have been widely used by Australian coal mines, ...

Modelling Seismic Wave Propagation for Geophysical Imaging

Post-stack velocity analysis by separation and imaging of seismic diffractions

Small geological features manifest themselves in seismic data in the form of diffracted waves, which are fundamentally different from seismic reflections. Using two field data examples and one synthetic example, we demonstrate the possibility of separating seismic diffractions in the data and imaging them with optimally chosen migration velocities. Our criterion for separating reflection and di...

Seismic Depth Imaging with the Gabor Transform

Wavefield extrapolation by spatially variable phase shift is currently a migration tool of importance. In this paper, we present a new prestack seismic migration algorithm using the Gabor transform with application to the Marmousi acoustic dataset. The imaging results show a very promising depth imaging algorithm, which is competitive with the best depth imaging algorithms. The Gabor depth imag...

ime-to-depth conversion and seismic velocity stimation using time-migration velocity

The objective was to build an efficient algorithm 1 to estimate seismic velocity from time-migration velocity, and 2 to convert time-migrated images to depth. We established theoretical relations between the time-migration velocity and seismic velocity in two and three dimensions using paraxial ray-tracing theory. The relation in two dimensions implies that the conventional Dix velocity is the ...