Parallel computing is gradually becoming a main stream tool in geotechnical simulations. The need for high fidelity and for modeling of fairly large 3-dimensional (3D) spatial configurations is motivating this direction of research. A new program ParCYCLIC for seismic geotechnical applications has been developed. Salient characteristics of the employed parallel sparse solver will be presented. ...

I approximate the inverse Hessian (L′L)−1, where L is a Born modeling operator and L′ is the corresponding adjoint RTM operator, with non-stationary matching filters. These non-stationary filters can be seen as a low-rank approximation of the true inverse Hessian. For 3D least-squares imaging, I use these matching filters to precondition the inversion of prestack seismic data and observe a sign...

Earthquakes far from tectonic plate boundaries generally exploit ancient faults, but not all intraplate faults are equally active. The North American Great Plains exemplify such intraplate earthquake localization, with both natural and induced seismicity generally clustered in discrete zones. Here we use seismic velocity, gravity and topography to generate a 3D lithospheric density model of the...

In this work, we present an efficient parallel implementation of a depth migration RTM (Reverse Time Migration) method to obtain a seismic image. This migration technique is based on the parallel solution of the acoustic wave propagation in 2D using a finite difference scheme. We have implemented a domain decomposition on the geological section and exploit an efficient asynchronous communicatio...

The coherence attribute is one of the most commonly used attributes in seismic interpretation. In this paper, we propose building on the recently introduced Generalized Tensor-based Coherence (GTC) attribute to make it directionally selective. This directional selectivity is achieved by selecting a directional Gaussian preprocessing kernel and applying a 3D rotational matrix to its covariance m...

We used a 3C/3D seismic reflection data set from King County, Texas, to investigate the utility of multicomponent seismic data for improving reservoir characterization. We evaluated a new seismic processing/ interpretation option, based on direct-S modes generated by a vertical-force source. This new seismic mode, SV-P, may allow legacy 3D P-wave data to be reprocessed to create converted-wave ...

For VSP data, interferometric migration of free-surface multiples has two significant advantages over standard VSP migration: 1). a significantly larger imaging area than that of conventional migration of VSP primaries, and 2). less sensitivity to velocity and static errors than conventional migration of VSP multiples. In this report we validate these claims by applying wave-equation interferom...