The Polarization Stack – A Multicomponent Attribute Derived from Vector Infidelity

P13 Summary THE POLARIZATION STACK: A MULTICOMPONENT ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM VECTOR INFIDELITY J. DELLINGER BP EPTG 501 Westlake Park Blvd Houston Texas 77079 USA I present a technique that is analogous to NMO and stack in that it sums over hyperbolic moveout trajectories. However unlike NMO and stack it also collapses the component and time dimensions within a chosen window. Polarizations cannot be summed as scalars; the result of a polarization stack is a matrix that represents the least-squares best-fitting linear relationship between the vector offset and the recorded polarization averaged over all offsets and times within the chosen stacking