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Fault detection

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Figure 1.
Focusing image gathers (FIG) for post-stack migration velocity analysis by diffraction focusing. Red colors indicate strong focusing. Superimposed black curves are slices of the picked migration velocity shown in Figure 3(b).
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Figure 2.
First test example. (a) Stacked section from a Gulf of Mexico dataset. (b) Local slopes estimated by plane-wave destruction.
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Figure 3.
Diffraction separation. (a) Diffraction events separated from data in Figure 2(a). (b) Migration velocity picked from local varimax scans after velocity continuation of diffractions.
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Figure 4.
Migrated images. (a) Migrated diffractions from Figure 3(a). (b) Initial data from Figure 2(a) migrated with velocity estimated by diffraction imaging.
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The data for our first example are shown in Figure 2(a), which displays a stacked section of a vintage Gulf of Mexico dataset (Claerbout, 2005). Diffractions caused by irregular fault boundaries are preserved in the stack thanks to dip moveout processing but are hardly visible underneath strong reflection responses. Figure 2(b) shows the dominant slope of reflection events estimated by the plane-wave destruction method. Numerous diffractions were separated from reflections by plane-wave destruction and are shown in Figure 3(a).

Figure 3(b) shows the migration velocity picked from focusing common-image gathers (FIGs). Example FIGs are shown in Figure 1. Figure 4(a) is the image of diffracted events, which collapse to collectively form fault surfaces. Figure 4(b) is the image obtained by migrating the original stack with velocities estimated from diffraction focusing analysis. In this final image, fault surfaces align with discontinuities in seismic reflectors. The image compares favorably with images of the same dataset from the conventional processing shown by Claerbout (2005).


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2013-03-02