Common-reflection-surface-based prestack diffraction separation and imaging

P Bakhtiari Rad, B Schwarz, D Gajewski, C Vanelle - Geophysics, 2018 - library.seg.org
Diffraction imaging can lead to high-resolution characterization of small-scale subsurface
structures. A key step of diffraction imaging and tomography is diffraction separation and …

Least-squares path-summation diffraction imaging using sparsity constraints

D Merzlikin, S Fomel, MK Sen - Geophysics, 2019 - library.seg.org
Diffraction imaging aims to emphasize small-scale subsurface heterogeneities, such as
faults, pinch-outs, fracture swarms, channels, etc. and can help seismic reservoir …

A comparative study of common-reflection-surface prestack time migration and data regularization: Application in crooked-line data

G Garabito - Geophysics, 2018 - library.seg.org
To improve the time-domain imaging of poor-quality seismic data, the common-reflection-
surface (CRS) stack method was introduced to simulate zero-offset (ZO) stacked sections …

Seismic imaging of complex structures with the CO-CDS stack method

A Shahbazi, D Ghosh, M Soleimani… - Studia Geophysica et …, 2016 - Springer
Various seismic imaging methods are introduced to resolve some of the possible
ambiguities of seismic interpretation in complex structures. Reducing dependency of …

Diffraction imaging for the fault-karst structure by least-squares reverse time migration

X Mu, J Huang, L Fu, S Jian, B Hu, Z Wang - Interpretation, 2021 - library.seg.org
The fault-karst reservoir, which evolved from the deformation and karstification of carbonate
rock, is one of the most important reservoir types in Western China. Along the deep-seated …

Analytical path-summation imaging of seismic diffractions

D Merzlikin, S Fomel - Geophysics, 2017 - library.seg.org
Diffraction imaging aims to emphasize small subsurface objects, such as faults, fracture
swarms, and channels. Similar to classical reflection imaging, velocity analysis is crucially …

Separation of diffracted waves via SVD filter

HY Shen, Q Li, YY Yan, XX Li, J Zhao - Petroleum Science, 2020 - Springer
Diffracted seismic waves may be used to help identify and track geologically heterogeneous
bodies or zones. However, the energy of diffracted waves is weaker than that of reflections …

Least-squares diffraction imaging using shaping regularization by anisotropic smoothing

D Merzlikin, S Fomel, X Wu - Geophysics, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We have used least-squares migration to emphasize edge diffractions. The inverted forward-
modeling operator is the chain of three operators: Kirchhoff modeling, azimuthal plane-wave …

Diffraction imaging using azimuthal plane-wave destruction

D Merzlikin, S Fomel, A Bona - SEG Technical Program Expanded …, 2016 - library.seg.org
Diffraction imaging is a useful tool for seismic reservoir characterization because it can
provide additional information about small-scale heterogeneities. Diffractions and reflections …

Diffraction imaging using geometric-mean reverse time migration and common-reflection surface

J Yin, N Nakata - Geophysics, 2019 - library.seg.org
Diffracted waves contain a great deal of valuable information about small-scale subsurface
structure such as faults, pinch-outs, karsts, and fractures, which are closely related to …