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f A massively parallel implementation of prestack Kirchhoff depth migration
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 53rd EAEG Meeting, May 1991, cp-42-00294
- ISBN: 978-90-73781-03-0
Abstract
Integral or Kirchhoff migration methods compute the integral solution of the wave equation, and have been used extensively in seismic imaging (Schneider, 1978; Berryhill, 1979; Berkhout, 1980). For each image point in the subsurface, these methods sum amplitudes of the recorded wavefield along a diffraction curve. The shape of the diffraction curve is described by the impulse response of the image point, the Green function, which depends on the velocity field and the shot-geophone geometry.