We describe a new short cut strategy to image the sediments and salt edge around a salt flank through an overburden salt canopy. We demonstrate its performance and capabilities on a synthetic acoustic seismic data from a Gulf of Mexico (GOM) style model. In this strategy, we first redatum the surface shots from a walk away Vertical Seismic Profile (WVSP) survey to be as if the source and receiv...

Many processes in seismic data analysis and seismic imaging can be identified with solution operators of evolution equations. These include data downward continuation and velocity continuation. We have addressed the question of whether isochrons defined by imaging operators can be identified with wavefronts of solutions to an evolution equation. Rays associated with this equation then would pro...

3-D prestack common-azimuth depth migration has a strong potential for imaging accurately complex media and handling multi-pathing. We apply the technique to North Sea real data for imaging a salt dome. The results obtained demonstrate the efficiency of the method in complex media. A detailed analysis of common-image gathers shows opportunities for improving the velocity model.

We show in this paper how the application of convex duality leads to various reformulations of the classical non optimizable least squares approach to waveform prestack inversion. These reformulations search all for i) a background velocity model and ii) a re-ectivity model deened in the time domain, and linked to the usual depth reeectivity model by prestack depth migration. We show that the d...

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...

Common-azimuth migration (CAM) is a 3-D prestack depth migration technique based on the wave equation (Biondi and Palacharla, 1996). It exploits the intrinsic narrow-azimuth nature of marine data to reduce its dimensionality and thus manages to cut the computational cost of 3-D imaging significantly enough to compete with Kirchhoff methods. Based on a recursive extrapolation of the recorded wav...

3-D prestack common-azimuth depth migration has strong potential for accurately imaging complex media and correctly handling multi-pathing. Here, we apply the technique to a North Sea real data containing a salt dome. The results obtained demonstrate the suitability of the method for complex media. A detailed analysis of associated angle-domain common-image gathers shows opportunities for impro...