Imaging velocity and attenuation scatterers with wave equation migration

The thesis deals with wave-equation migration in a visco-acoustic medium, where an ambiguity appears when one tries to image simultaneous velocity and attenuation perturbations.

Combined imaging and velocity estimation by Joint Migration Inversion

Seismic imaging projects aim to reveal the structure of the earths crust from seismic data. These projects typically include three separate processing steps, being: • attenuation of multiple reflections in the seismic data. • estimating seismic wave propagation velocities from the seismic data. • mapping the measured reflection data to the...