Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction and Overview
  • Chapter 2: Least-squares Migration of Multisource Data with a Deblurring Filter
  • Chapter 3: Plane-wave Least-squares Reverse Time Migration
  • Chapter 4: Reverse Time Migration of Prism Waves for Salt Flank Delineation
  • Technical Contributions in this Dissertation
  
  
• Least-squares Migration of Multisource Data with a Deblurring Filter
  • Introduction
    • Blended Sources Processing
    • Crosstalk Noise Reduction
    • Scope of This Chapter
  • Theory
    • Multisource Migration
    • Multisource Least-squares Migration (MLSM)
    • Numerical Implementation
    • Signal-to-noise Ratio Analysis
  • Numerical Results
    • Conventional Sources Least-squares Migration and Deblurring
    • Multisource Least-squares Migration
    • Dynamic Encoding vs Static Encoding
    • Computational Cost
  • Conclusions
  
  
• Plane-wave Least-squares Reverse Time Migration
  • Introduction
  • Theory
    • Least-squares Migration
    • Plane-wave prestack LSRTM
  • Numerical results
    • Synthetic Example: Marmousi2 Data with a Fixed Spread Survey
    • Plane-wave Transformation
    • LSRTM of One Plane-wave Gather
    • Dynamic Plane-wave LSRTM
    • Plane-wave Prestack LSRTM
    • Computational and I/O Cost
    • Sensitivity to Velocity Error
    • Field Data Example
    • Shot-domain RTM
    • Plane-wave RTM
    • Plane-wave Prestack LSRTM
    • Dynamic Plane-wave LSRTM
    • Computational and I/O Cost
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  
  
• Reverse Time Migration of Prism Waves for Salt Flank Delineation
  • Introduction
  • Theory
    • Prism Wave Reverse Time Migration
    • Geometric Interpretation of the Migration Kernel for Prism Wave
  • Numerical results
    • Simple L Model
    • Salt Model
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  
  
• Deblurring filter
• Signal-to-noise Ratio
• Least-squares Migration with Prestack Image
• Mathematical Derivation with Adjoint State Method
• Bibliography