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Volume 27 Number 1
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2478

Abstract

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The first part of this paper examines a special case of acoustical imaging in which the source and the receiver coincide. The benefits of weighting and muting are studied in detail by means of computer modeling. The test model consists of a single planar interface =, abruptly terminated at = o. The amplitude and phase responses are computed in the plane == o for two separations of neighboring stations, Δ=λ/10 and Δ=λ/2. Six different weighting factors are used in the test. However, in this source‐receiver coincident case, three of the weighting factors produce identical responses, so that all six test factors may be represented by only four curves. It is found that when the spatial sampling at the aperture approaches the condition of critical sampling, i.e. Δ=λ/2, only the weighting factor which implicitly takes into account beam steering along the specular reflection path is acceptable. This factor alone keeps the amplitude and the phase curves undistorted until the difference 2 ·Δ between two neighboring paths reaches approximately λ/2. If we set 2 ·Δ=λ/2, we may construct a set of curves which we may call quite appropriately muting curves. These curves are physically interpretable only for station separation Δ > λ/4. The muting curves are symmetrical about the line = 0 and their angular opening depends on spatial separation Δ, depth , and wavelength λ (which may vary with depth).

The second part of this paper suggests how the weighting factor with implicit beam steering can be applied to reconstruction of two and three‐dimensional wavefields. Seismic migration of common depth point (CDP) stacked line data is also discussed. This is a hybrid case which presents certain theoretical difficulties. We shall also mention the velocity problem which is inherent to migration of CDP stacked data.

The third and final part concerns implementation of the migration of CDP stacked data. When the spatial sampling is between λ/4 and λ/2, the migration process will benefit from beam steering and from muting. The benefits are more subtle when the separation of the traces is less than λ/4. However, in that case the cost of data collection is considerable and often prohibitive. In either case the migration of seismic data can be expedited by use of precalculated tables of migration velocities, ray path distances, and weights (including muting).

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