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Volume 67, Issue 2
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2478

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Radon transform is a powerful tool with many applications in different stages of seismic data processing, because of its capability to focus seismic events in the transform domain. Three‐parameter Radon transform can optimally focus and separate different seismic events, if its basis functions accurately match the events. In anisotropic media, the conventional hyperbolic or shifted hyperbolic basis functions lose their accuracy and cannot preserve data fidelity, especially at large offsets. To address this issue, we propose an accurate traveltime approximation for transversely isotropic media with vertical symmetry axis, and derive two versions of Radon basis functions, time‐variant and time‐invariant. A time‐variant basis function can be used in time domain Radon transform algorithms while a time‐invariant version can be used in, generally more efficient, frequency domain algorithms. Comparing the time‐variant and time‐invariant Radon transform by the proposed basis functions, the time‐invariant version can better focus different seismic events; it is also more accurate, especially in presence of vertical heterogeneity. However, the proposed time‐invariant basis functions are suitable for a specific type of layered anisotropic media, known as factorized media. We test the proposed methods and illustrate successful applications of them for trace interpolation and coherent noise attenuation.

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Keyword(s): Anisotropy; Data processing; Seismics; Signal processing

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