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Figure 1 A sketch of Stolt residual migration |
In residual prestack Stolt migration (RPrSM), we attempt to correct the effects of migrating with an inaccurate reference velocity by applying a transformation to the data that have been transformed to the Fourier domain (Figure 1). Supposing that the initial migration was done with the velocity v0, and that the correct velocity is vm, we can then write
The goal of RPrSM is to obtain kzm from kz0. If we use the first equation of (4) to substitute in the second equation of (4), we obtain
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Equation (6) represents the RPrSM equation in two dimensions. For post-stack data, the same equation takes the familiar form
(6) |