Journal
GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING
Volume 64, Issue 1, Pages 129-142Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2478.12280
Keywords
Seismic imaging; Diffractions; Reverse-time migration
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- University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour
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We propose a method for imaging small-scale diffraction objects in complex environments in which Kirchhoff-based approaches may fail. The proposed method is based on a separation between the specular reflection and diffraction components of the total wavefield in the migrated surface angle domain. Reverse-time migration was utilized to produce the common image gathers. This approach provides stable and robust results in cases of complex velocity models. The separation is based on the fact that, in surface angle common image gathers, reflection events are focused at positions that correspond to the apparent dip angle of the reflectors, whereas diffracted events are distributed over a wide range of angles. The high-resolution radon-based procedure is used to efficiently separate the reflection and diffraction wavefields. In this study, we consider poststack diffraction imaging. The advantages of working in the poststack domain are its numerical efficiency and the reduced computational time. The numerical results show that the proposed method is able to image diffraction objects in complex environments. The application of the method to a real seismic dataset illustrates the capability of the approach to extract diffractions.
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