Conclusions

The analysis of the synthetic model clearly indicates that the fading/disappearing phenomenon seen in the migrated section of the real data is due at least partially to poor illumination. Fortunately, it is also apparent that some energy does get through to this reflector. Since there is energy arriving from the reflector, we should be able to image it by using weighting, inversion, and/or common angle gathers. Ultimately the methods developed while dealing with the 2-D synthetic dataset must be applicable to the real 3-D dataset.