Joint migration inversion: Features and challenges

Joint migration inversion is a recently proposed technology, accommodating velocity model building and seismic migration in one integrated process. Different from the widely accepted full waveform inversion technology, it uses imaging parameters, i.e. velocities and reflectivities of the subsurface, to parameterize its solution space. The...

3-D Linear Reconstruction of the Experimental Fresnel Data by the GMMV Inversion Method

In this paper, the generalized multiple measurement vectors (GMMV) linear inversion method is applied to the reconstruction of the 3-D Fresnel data, provided by the Institue Fresnel (Marseille, France). The results show that the GMMV-based method can obtain good resolution along the x- and y- axes, while poor resolution along the z-axis,...

Research Note: Near-surface layer replacement for sparse data: Is interpolation needed?

Near-surface problem is a common challenge faced by land seismic data processing, where often, due to near-surface anomalies, events of interest are obscured. One method to handle this challenge is near-surface layer replacement, which is a wavefield reconstruction process based on downward wavefield extrapolation with the near-surface...