Seismic Velocity Estimation from Time Migration Velocities
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چکیده
We address the problem of estimating seismic velocities inside the earth which is necessary for obtaining seismic images in regular Cartesian coordinates. We derive a relation between the true seismic velocities and the routinely obtained so called ”time migration velocities”, which are some kind of mean velocities. We formulate an inverse problem and show that it is ill-posed. We suggest three different approaches for solving it. We test these algorithms on synthetic data and apply them to a field data example.
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