The space-time Greens functions for 3-D poststack and 3-D prestack migration in a homogeneous medium are derived under the fareld approximation. These Greens functions can be used to practically compute synthetic migrated images. Examples are given for the recording footprint noise associated with a point scatterer and a meandering river channel. The Greens functions also provide fundamental in...

The purpose of this work is to present and analyze the results of numerical simulations related to the application of three different mathematical models in the acoustic seismic wave propagation in which only compressional waves (P-waves) are contemplated. And present the results of an investigation about how these wave equation implementations can influence the amplitudes of a migrated section...

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...

A nonlinear singularity-preserving solution to seismic image recovery with sparseness and continuity constraints is proposed. We observe that curvelets, as a directional frame expansion, lead to sparsity of seismic images and exhibit invariance under the normal operator of the linearized imaging problem. Based on this observation we derive a method for stable recovery of the migration amplitude...

Geological CO2 sequestration relies on a competent sealing layer, or caprock, that bounds the formation top and prevents vertical migration of fluids. Modeling studies have shown that the caprock boundary can significantly decrease updip migration speed of CO2 and increase structural trapping . The trapping phenomenon depends on the structure and topography, or roughness, of the caprock that ca...

We elaborate the main points of the wave-equation migration velocity analysis method introduced in a previous report. We analyze its strengths and limitations, and illustrate them using a synthetic example. The inversion results confirm our original expectations, especially with regard to stability and robustness. The main difficulty in recovering a complete velocity perturbation is related to ...