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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS AND ENGINEERING
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 453-473Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jge/gxad021
Keywords
plane-wave least-squares migration; short-time ssa; diffraction wave separation; diffraction wave imaging
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This study developed a least-squares reverse time migration method using short-time singular spectrum analysis to separate small-scale scatterers in the subsurface. The proposed method effectively improves the resolution of diffraction wave imaging and increases the robustness to noisy data. Tests with synthetic and noisy seismic data validate the effectiveness of the method.
Diffractions are seismic waves generated by small-scale heterogeneities in the subsurface. These are often superimposed by strong reflections so that they are not visible on the image, leading to misinterpretation and incorrect localization of the scatterers. Therefore, the separation of diffracted and reflected waves is a crucial step in identifying these small-scale diffractors. To realize the separation of diffraction and imaging, a least-squares reverse time migration method of plane waves (PLSRTM) optimized with short-time singular spectrum analysis (STSSA) was developed in this work. The proposed STSSA algorithm exploits the properties of singular spectral analysis (SSA) to separate linear signals. By establishing the Hanning window and the energy compensation function, it also compensates for the shortcomings of SSA in local dip processing and convergence of linear signals. As there is no clear boundary between reflected and diffracted waves, the energy loss during separation leads to a slow convergence rate of the diffraction wave imaging technique. We use STSSA as a constraint for PLSRTM, which greatly improves the imaging quality for diffraction waves. The tests with the Sigsbee2A model and noisy seismic data have shown that our method can effectively improve the resolution of diffraction wave imaging and that the constraint of STSSA increases the robustness to noisy data.
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