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Abstract

ABSTRACT

Reverse time migration can accurately image underground earth structures. However, for shallow seismic exploration, the seismic wave velocity is often lower than the velocity in the middle‐deep layers, which causes numerical dispersion for finite‐difference schemes and leads to poor seismic imaging quality. Suppressing numerical dispersion by grid encryption or increasing the finite‐difference order seriously reduces computational efficiency, which is not the optimal solution. To improve the imaging quality without sacrificing computational efficiency, a regularization factor is added to the acoustic wave equation to correct the phase velocity of high wave‐number components. An appropriate regularization factor can eliminate numerical dispersion that results from large grid interval schemes and can reduce the size of computational grids and improve computational efficiency. For simulations in the frequency domain, reducing the grid size also means reducing computer memory requirements. Numerical experiments indicate that the regularization factor should match the degree of numerical dispersion. Larger regularization factors can suppress serious numerical dispersion. However, excessively large regularization factors may destroy the effective wave field. Different numerical models verify the effectiveness of the improved acoustic equation for suppressing numerical dispersion and maintaining amplitudes and provide a novel means to improve the shallow seismic image quality.

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A numerical dispersion‐suppressed method for shallow seismic migration
Near Surface Geophysics 19, 109 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1002/nsg.12134
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  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): finite‐difference; frequency; migration; Seismic; shallow subsurface

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