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Reverse-time migration using the Poynting vector  

Yoon, Kwang-Jin (School of Civil, Urban and Geosystem Engineering, Seoul National University)
Marfurt, Kurt J. (Allied Geophysical Laboratories, University of Houston)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.9, no.1, 2006 , pp. 102-107 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, rapid developments in computer hardware have enabled reverse-time migration to be applied to various production imaging problems. As a wave-equation technique using the two-way wave equation, reverse-time migration can handle not only multi-path arrivals but also steep dips and overturned reflections. However, reverse-time migration causes unwanted artefacts, which arise from the two-way characteristics of the hyperbolic wave equation. Zero-lag cross correlation with diving waves, head waves and back-scattered waves result in spurious artefacts. These strong artefacts have the common feature that the correlating forward and backward wavefields propagate in almost the opposite direction to each other at each correlation point. This is because the ray paths of the forward and backward wavefields are almost identical. In this paper, we present several tactics to avoid artefacts in shot-domain reverse-time migration. Simple muting of a shot gather before migration, or wavefront migration which performs correlation only within a time window following first arriving travel times, are useful in suppressing artefacts. Calculating the wave propagation direction from the Poynting vector gives rise to a new imaging condition, which can eliminate strong artefacts and can produce common image gathers in the reflection angle domain.
Keywords
Wave equation migration; Reverse-time; Poynting vector; Common image gather;
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