Post-stack diffraction imaging in vertical transverse isotropy media using non-hyperbolic moveout approximations

Diffractions carry valuable information about local discontinuities and small-scale objects in the subsurface. They are still not commonly used in the process of geological interpretation. Many diffraction imaging techniques have been developed and applied for isotropic media, whereas relatively few...

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Main Authors: Khoshnavaz, M., Bóna, A., Urosevic, Milovan
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53868
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author Khoshnavaz, M.
Bóna, A.
Urosevic, Milovan
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Bóna, A.
Urosevic, Milovan
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description Diffractions carry valuable information about local discontinuities and small-scale objects in the subsurface. They are still not commonly used in the process of geological interpretation. Many diffraction imaging techniques have been developed and applied for isotropic media, whereas relatively few techniques have been developed for anisotropic media. Ignoring anisotropy can result in low-resolution images with wrongly positioned or spurious diffractors. In this article, we suggest taking anisotropy into account in two-dimensional post-stack domain by considering P-wave non-hyperbolic diffraction traveltime approximations for vertical transverse isotropy media, previously developed for reflection seismology. The accuracy of the final images is directly connected to the accuracy of the diffraction traveltime approximations. We quantified the accuracy of six different approximations, including hyperbolic moveout approximation, by the application of a post-stack diffraction imaging technique on two-dimensional synthetic data examples.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-538682018-02-28T03:55:03Z Post-stack diffraction imaging in vertical transverse isotropy media using non-hyperbolic moveout approximations Khoshnavaz, M. Bóna, A. Urosevic, Milovan Diffractions carry valuable information about local discontinuities and small-scale objects in the subsurface. They are still not commonly used in the process of geological interpretation. Many diffraction imaging techniques have been developed and applied for isotropic media, whereas relatively few techniques have been developed for anisotropic media. Ignoring anisotropy can result in low-resolution images with wrongly positioned or spurious diffractors. In this article, we suggest taking anisotropy into account in two-dimensional post-stack domain by considering P-wave non-hyperbolic diffraction traveltime approximations for vertical transverse isotropy media, previously developed for reflection seismology. The accuracy of the final images is directly connected to the accuracy of the diffraction traveltime approximations. We quantified the accuracy of six different approximations, including hyperbolic moveout approximation, by the application of a post-stack diffraction imaging technique on two-dimensional synthetic data examples. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53868 10.1111/1365-2478.12515 Wiley-Blackwell restricted
spellingShingle Khoshnavaz, M.
Bóna, A.
Urosevic, Milovan
Post-stack diffraction imaging in vertical transverse isotropy media using non-hyperbolic moveout approximations
title Post-stack diffraction imaging in vertical transverse isotropy media using non-hyperbolic moveout approximations
title_full Post-stack diffraction imaging in vertical transverse isotropy media using non-hyperbolic moveout approximations
title_fullStr Post-stack diffraction imaging in vertical transverse isotropy media using non-hyperbolic moveout approximations
title_full_unstemmed Post-stack diffraction imaging in vertical transverse isotropy media using non-hyperbolic moveout approximations
title_short Post-stack diffraction imaging in vertical transverse isotropy media using non-hyperbolic moveout approximations
title_sort post-stack diffraction imaging in vertical transverse isotropy media using non-hyperbolic moveout approximations
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53868