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Least-squares Reverse Time Migration of Marine Data with Frequency-selection Encoding

The phase-encoding technique can sometimes increase the efficiency of the least-squares reverse time migration (LSRTM) by more than one order of magnitude. However, traditional random encoding functions require all the encoded shots to share the same receiver locations, thus limiting the usage to seismic survey with a fixed spread geometry. In this chapter, I implement a frequency-selection encoding strategy that utilizes orthogonal encoding functions to handle seismic data with a marine streamer geometry. The encoding functions are delta functions in the frequency domain, so that all the encoded shots have unique non-overlapping frequency content. Therefore, the receivers can distinguish the wavefield from each shot according to the specified frequencies. With the frequency-selection encoding method, the computational efficiency of LSRTM is increased so that its cost is comparable to conventional RTM in the example of Marmousi2 model. With more iterations, the LSRTM image quality is further improved. The numerical results suggest that LSRTM with frequency-selection is an efficient method to produce better images than conventional RTM.



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Wei Dai 2013-07-10