Plane-wave destruction filters originate from a local plane-wave
model for characterizing seismic data. These filters can be thought
of as a
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analog of
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prediction-error filters and as an
alternative to
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prediction-error filters. The filters are
constructed with the help of an implicit finite-difference scheme
for the local plane-wave equation. On several synthetic and
real-data examples, I demonstrate that finite-difference plane-wave
destruction filters perform well in applications such as fault
detection, data interpolation, and noise attenuation.