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Conclusions

Angle-domain CIG gathers have attractive properties when a complex velocity model causes multipathing of reflected energy. They are free of the imaging artifacts caused by reflector-position ambiguity that degrade the image obtained from either shot gathers or common-offset gathers. We presented a simple method for extracting angle-domain CIGs from the prestack wavefield downward-continued using the wave equation. Our method produces high-quality CIG gathers that can be readily used for either velocity analysis or AVA analysis. Experimentation with the Marmousi dataset shows that our methods are valid.


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