Future Work

In the future we plan to implement other portions of the shot profile algorithm on an FPGA. The streaming approach should offer significant speed-up for both applying the SSR equation and the 2-D FFTs.

The same subsurface imaging condition is used in both plane wave and reverse time migration. Incorporating a FPGA based imaging condition into either would be trivial. Reverse time migraton, where the cost of propogating the source and receiver wavefield is order and magnitude more than Fourier based methods, is another exciting oppotunity for a FPGA based solution.