Velocity continuation is an imaginary continuous process of seismic image transformation in the postmigration domain. It generalizes the concepts of residual and cascaded migrations. Understanding the laws of velocity continuation is crucially important for a successful application of time-migration velocity analysis. These laws predict the changes in the geometry and intensity of reflection ev...

Residual and cascaded migration can be described as a continuous process of velocity continuation in the post-migration domain. This process moves reflection events on the migrated seismic sections according to changes in the migration velocity. Understanding the laws of velocity continuation is crucially important for a successful application of migration velocity analysis. In this paper, I de...

Migration in the angle domain creates seismic images for different reflection angles. We present a method for computing angle-domain common-image gathers from seismic images obtained by depth migration using wavefield continuation. Our method operates on prestack migrated images and produces the output as a function of the reflection angle, not as a function of offset ray parameter as in other ...

Wave-equation migration velocity analysis is based on the linear relation that can be established between a perturbation in the migrated image and the corresponding perturbation in the slowness function. Our method formulates an objective function in the image space, in contrast with other wave-equation tomography techniques which formulate objective functions in the data space. We iteratively ...

An approach to detect and image multiple damages in a platelike structure is presented. A structural health monitoring system (SHMS) with a linear array of actuators/sensors is proposed. The integrated actuators/sensors are used to activate/receive lowest-order antisymmetric A0 mode Lamb waves. A migration technique used in geophysical exploration and seismic prospecting is adopted to interpret...

I present a general methodology for computing Angle-Domain Common Image Gathers (ADCIGs) in conjunction with anisotropic wavefield-continuation migration. The method is based on the transformation of the prestack image from the subsurface-offset domain to the angle domain by use of slant stacks. The processing sequence is the same as for the computation of ADCIGs for the isotropic case, though ...

I introduce a new migration method that overcomes the limitations of common-azimuth migration while retaining its computational efficiency for imaging marine streamer data. The method is based on source-receiver downward-continuation of the prestack data with a narrow range of cross-line offsets. To minimize the width of the cross-line offset range, while assuring that all the recorded events a...

Summary The hydrocarbon prospects in mountainous areas require solving a most challenging problem in seismic imaging --irregular topography associated with a rugged terrain, complexity of the nearsurface that includes high-velocity layers and outcrops with significant lateral velocity variations, complexity of the overburden, and the complexity of the target imbricate structures themselves. We ...