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Derivation of Reverse-Time Migration Operator as Adjoint Operation  

Ji, Jun (Department of Information System Engineering, Hansung University)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.10, no.2, 2007 , pp. 111-123 More about this Journal
Abstract
Unlike the conventional reverse time migration method which is implemented by simply extrapolating wavefield in reverse time, this paper presents a derivation of another reverse time migration operator as the exact adjoint of the presumed forward wavefield extrapolation operator. The adjoint operator is obtained by formulating the forward time extrapolation operator in an explicit matrix equation form and then taking the adjoint to this matrix equation followed by determining the corresponding operator. The reverse time migration operator as the exact adjoint to the implied forward operator can be used not only as a migration algorithm but also as an adjoint operator which is required in the imaging through an inversion such as least-squares migration.
Keywords
Reverse time migration; adjoint operator; Finite Difference Method (FDM); Least-squares migration;
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