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Adaptive merging migration

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Lu Liu
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Hussain Salim
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Ke Chen
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Yang Zhao *
DOI:10.1190/GEO2023-0158.1delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Velocity errors and data noise are inevitable for seismic imaging of field data sets in current production; therefore, it is desirable to improve the seismic images as part of the migration process to mitigate the influence of such errors and noise. To address this, we develop a new method of adaptive merging migration (AMM). Our method can produce migrated sections of equal quality to conventional migration methods given a correct velocity model and noise-free data. In addition, it can ameliorate the seismic image quality when applied with erroneous migration velocity models or noisy seismic data. AMM uses an efficient recursive Radon transform to generate multiple p-component images, representing migrated sections associated with different local plane slopes. It then adaptively merges the subsections from those p-component images that are less distorted by velocity errors or noise into the whole image. Such merging is implemented by computing adaptive weights followed by a selective stacking. We use three synthetic velocity models and one field data set to evaluate the AMM performance on isolated Gaussian velocity errors, inaccurate smoothed velocities, velocity errors around high-contrast and short-wavelength interfaces, and noisy seismic data. Numerical tests conducted on synthetic and field data sets validate that AMM can effectively improve the seismic image quality in the presence of different types of velocity errors and data noise.
Keywords:
LEAST-SQUARES MIGRATION
VELOCITY
INVERSION

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Saudi Aramco
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china university of petroleum
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