VTI anisotropic corrections and effective parameter estimation after isotropic prestack depth migration

Moshe Reshef*, Murray Roth

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Abstract

In the method for applying anisotropic corrections after isotropic prestack depth migration (PSDM), the correction, which is calculated and implemented in the depth domain, is defined as a time difference between isotropic and anisotropic traveltimes, under the assumption that the vertical velocity is known. The definition of this correction uses a special postmigration common-image-gather (CIG) ordering, which collects the migrated data according to the input-trace's source and receiver distance from the surface CIG location. In this postmigration domain, the dip of the events can be directly related to their horizontal position in the CIG, called the imaging offset, and the separation of flat and dipping reflectors becomes easy to perform. The dependency of the seismic anisotropic effect on the subsurface dip angle is well pronounced in these CIGs. After application of an isotropic PSDM, effective anisotropic-parameter estimation is performed at selected CIG locations by using a simple two-parameter scan procedure. The optimal anisotropic parameters can be used to perform a final anisotropic PSDM or to apply a residual correction to the isotropically migrated data. We demonstrate the method for P-wave data in 2D media with vertical transverse isotropy (VTI) symmetry by using both synthetic and real data. We also present a strategy for handling the ambiguity between the vertical velocity and the anisotropic parameters.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)D35-D43
JournalGeophysics
Volume71
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006

Keywords

  • Data acquisition
  • Seismic waves
  • Seismology

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