Contents

• List of Figures
• Introduction
  • Motivation
  • Technical Contributions
  
  
• Generalized Diffraction-stack Migration: A Modified Form of Reverse-time Migration
  • Theory of Diffraction-stack Migration
  • Theory of Reverse-time Migration
  • Theory of Generalized Diffraction-stack Migration
  • Summary
  
  
• Filtering of coherent noise
  • Introduction
  • Filtering the GDM Kernel
    • Horizontal Reflector Model
    • Vertical Reflector Model
  • Numerical Results
    • Synthetic Data
    • Gulf of Mexico Field Data
  • Summary
  
  
• Antialiasing Filter for Migration
  • Introduction and Method
    • Migration as Fingerprint Matching
    • Antialiasing Filter for Kirchhoff Migration
    • Antialiasing Filter for Reverse-time Migration
  • Numerical Results
  • Summary
  
  
• Migration of Multiple Scattered Events
  • Introduction
  • Method
  • Numerical Results
  • Summary
  
  
• Least-squares Wave-equation Migration
  • Introduction
  • Theory
  • Numerical Results
  • Summary
  
  
• Phase-encoded Wave-equation Migration
  • Introduction
  • Theory
    • Phase-encoded Reverse-time Migration
    • Phase-encoded Generalized Diffraction-stack Migration
    • Least-squares Phase-encoded GDM
  • Numerical Results
  • Summary
  
  
• Computation of the Migration Kernel
• Compression of the Migration Kernel
• Bibliography