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Common-azimuth Stolt residual migration

Common-azimuth data represent subsets of 3D prestack data that have been recorded or transformed to a common azimuth, which corresponds to zero cross-line offsets (${\bf h}_y=0$). Stolt migration for common-azimuth data involves the use of the following dispersion relation (9):  
 \begin{displaymath}
{\kzz}_x= \frac{1}{2}\sqrt{\frac{\ww^2}{v^2}- \lp {k_m}_x-{k...
 ... \frac{1}{2}\sqrt{\frac{\ww^2}{v^2}- \lp {k_m}_x+{k_h}_x\rp^2},\end{displaymath} (40)
where the depth wavenumber for the common-azimuth dataset ($\kzz$) is written as  
 \begin{displaymath}
\kzz = \sqrt{ {\kzz}_x^2 - {k_m}_y^2}.\end{displaymath} (41)

We can rewrite dispersion.true and disp.true for a given reference velocity (v0) and obtain the corresponding depth wavenumbers ${{\kzz}_x}_0$ and ${\kzz}_0$.Mathematically, the goal of common-azimuth Stolt residual migrations is also to obtain $\kzz$ from ${\kzz}_0$. Again, we can achieve this by eliminating the frequency $\omega$ from the expressions for ${\kzz}_0$ and $\kzz$, which leads to the 3D common-azimuth residual migration equations:  
 \begin{displaymath}
\left\{
\bea{l}
{ \bea{r}
 {\kzz}_x= \frac{1}{2}\sqrt{\rho^2...
 ...a }
\\  \kzz = \sqrt{ {\kzz}_x^2 - {k_m}_y^2} \;,
\eea
\right .\end{displaymath} (42)
where, by definition, $\rho=\frac{v_0}{v}$.If we make the change of variables
\begin{displaymath}
\mu_c^2=\frac{ \lb {{\kzz}_0}^2 + {k_m}_y^2 + {k_h}_x^2 \rb
...
 ...}_0}^2 + {k_m}_y^2 + {k_m}_x^2 \rb }
 {{{\kzz}_0}^2+{k_m}_y^2}.\end{displaymath} (43)
we obtain a simplified version of myresmig-ca:
\begin{displaymath}
\left\{
\bea{l}
{\kzz}_x= \frac{1}{2}\sqrt{ \rho^2 \mu_c^2 -...
 ...p^2}
\\ \kzz = \sqrt{ {\kzz}_x^2 - {k_m}_y^2} \;,
\eea
\right .\end{displaymath} (44)

For 2D data, where kmy=0, $\kzz \equiv {\kzz}_x$ and ${\kzz}_0\equiv {{\kzz}_x}_0$,myresmig-ca reduce to the 2D prestack myresmig-2d-pr and post-stack myresmig-2d-po forms.


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11/4/2004