Introduction

This short-note is intended as a companion paper to Biondo et al. 1996. It aims to examine the validity of some of the assumptions necessary for the Born elastic scattering method which we used to create the synthetic seismograms, especially the assumption of weak scatterers which allows the problem to be treated as linear.

Born generated synthetic seismograms for plane layer models are compared with Zoeppritz reflection coefficients, and can be seen to give good qualitative agreement. The results of this modeling are used to aid the interpretation of multi-offset results from the main paper.