Prestack partial migration operators are useful tools in reducing the size of seismic data. Dip moveout (DMO) is the most common prestack partial migration operator. () comments on a series of DMO operators for PS data. The operators differ in numerical approximations of the moveout equation, processing domain and implementation domain. He also introduces a more accurate PS-DMO operator in the log-stretch f-k domain that gives an appropriate amplitude distribution.
() introduce a more general prestack partial migration operator called Azimuth Moveout (AMO). AMO has the advantage of transforming prestack data into equivalent data with arbitrary offset and azimuth, moving events across midpoints according to their dip. Several advantages have been described for the AMO operator. Among them are: 1) partial stacking of prestack data, in order to create regularly sampled common offset-azimuth cubes (, , ) and 2) data regularization of irregular sampled data which preserves amplitudes ().
This work presents the equivalent of the PP-AMO operator for converted wave data. We explain the geometrical interpretation of our PS-AMO operator, in which the concept of CCP transformation is important since it is the base for event movement according to its dip. Our PS-AMO operator is a cascade operation of PS-DMO and inverse PS-DMO. We exploit the knowledge of the fast and accurate PP-AMO in the log-stretch frequency-wavenumber domain () by selecting the PS-DMO operator in the log-stretch frequency-wavenumber domain introduced by (), reformulated and improved by ().
The PS-AMO operator has a significant future application, the regularization of ocean bottom seismic (OBS) data. The presence of already existing platforms produces holes in the data. This information can be safely regularized with an appropriate operator, in this case a PS-AMO operator.