Seismic Imaging: A Review of the Techniques, Their Principles, Merits and Limitations

Topic Contents: Introduction-What is reflection seismic image exactly? Wave prpagation: some reminders Principles of Ray-based and Kirchhoff summation migrations. Pre-stack time migrations: principles and velocity analysis. Ray-based Kirchhoff Migrations anf Tomography. Ray-based Beam Migrations. Wavefield Extrapolation Migrations. Wavefield Extrapolation Migration Velocity Analysis and Inversion-based Techniques. Examples, Discussion and Conclusion Acknowledgements. References. Index