自适应横向变速参考速度选择方法

基于扰动理论的混合域波动方程波场外推算子,具有一定介质横向速度变化适应能力,是反射地震学中研究较多的成像方法。此类波场外推算子沿深度层进行波场外推,都存在参考速度选择问题。单参考速度波场外推算子,适应地下介质弱横向变速,而多参考速度波场外推算子可以提高横向变速的适应能力和成像精度,但要以大量计算为代价。本文提出的自适应多参考速度选择策略,根据外推层地质构造的复杂度和给定的速度门槛值自动选择参考速度个数,利用该策略构造混合域SSF、FFD、WXFD和GSP等多参考速度波场外推成像算法。盐丘模型理论数据测试结果表明,自适应多参考速度波场外推算法具有强横向变速适应能力和较高成像精度。     

最优可分表示法三维波场延拓

适于复杂介质的高精度波场延拓算子是叠前深度偏移研究的重要内容。本文采用最优可分表示方法,运用正反傅立叶变换构造了三维单程波场延拓算子,算子实现了波数域变量与空间(速度)域变量分离。波数域内进行相移计算,在空间域对因介质横向变速引起的时移作修正。脉冲响应显示在区域内各速度的脉冲计算值与理论值基本一致,说明最优可分表示法叠前深度偏移可适用于强变速条件下复杂介质的成像需求。SEG／EAGE模型和实测数据的成像结果验证了本文方法对复杂构造的成像能力。     

3D wavefield extrapolation with optimal separable approximation

An accurate and wide-angle one-way propagator for wavefield extrapolation is an important topic for research on wave-equation prestack depth migration in the presence of large and rapid velocity variations. Based on the optimal separable approximation presented in this paper, the mixed domain algorithm with forward and inverse Fourier transforms is used to construct the 3D one-way wavefield extrapolation operator. This operator separates variables in the wavenumber and spatial domains. The phase shift operation is implemented in the wavenumber domain while the time delay for lateral velocity variation is corrected in the spatial domain. The impulse responses of the one-way wave operator show that the numeric computation is consistent with the theoretical value for each velocity, revealing that the operator constructed with the optimal separable approximation can be applied to lateral velocity variations for the case of small steps. Imaging results of the SEG/EAGE model and field data indicate that the new method can be used to image complex structure.     

Wave‐equation migration velocity analysis with time‐shift imaging

Wave‐equation migration velocity analysis is a technique designed to extract and update velocity information from migrated images. The velocity model is updated through the process of optimizing the coherence of images migrated with the known background velocity model. The capacity for handling multi‐pathing of the technique makes it appropriate in complex subsurface regions characterized by strong velocity variation. Wave‐equation migration velocity analysis operates by establishing a linear relation between a slowness perturbation and a corresponding image perturbation. The linear relationship and the corresponding linearized operator are derived from conventional extrapolation operators and the linearized operator inherits the main properties of frequency‐domain wavefield extrapolation. A key step in the implementation is to design an appropriate procedure for constructing an image perturbation relative to a reference image that represents the difference between the current image and a true, or more correct image of the subsurface geology. The target of the inversion is to minimize such an image perturbation by optimizing the velocity model. Using time‐shift common‐image gathers, one can characterize the imperfections of migrated images by defining the focusing error as the shift of the focus of reflections along the time‐shift axis. The focusing error is then transformed into an image perturbation by focusing analysis under the linear approximation. As the focusing error is caused by the incorrect velocity model, the resulting image perturbation can be considered as a mapping of the velocity model error in the image space. Such an approach for constructing the image perturbation is computationally efficient and simple to implement. The technique also provides a new alternative for using focusing information in wavefield‐based velocity model building. Synthetic examples demonstrate the successful application of our method to a layered model and a subsalt velocity update problem.     

Wavefield dependency on virtual shifts in the source location

The wavefield dependence on a virtual shift in the source location can provide information helpful in velocity estimation and interpolation. However, the second‐order partial differential equation (PDE) that relates changes in the wavefield form (or shape) to lateral perturbations in the source location depends explicitly on lateral derivatives of the velocity field. For velocity models that include lateral velocity discontinuities this is problematic as such derivatives in their classical definition do not exist. As a result, I derive perturbation partial differential wave equations that are independent of direct velocity derivatives and thus, provide possibilities for wavefield shape extrapolation in complex media. These PDEs have the same structure as the wave equation with a source function that depends on the background (original source) wavefield. The solutions of the perturbation equations provide the coefficients of a Taylor's series type expansion for the wavefield. The new formulas introduce changes to the background wavefield only in the presence of lateral velocity variation or in general terms velocity variations in the perturbation direction. The accuracy of the representation, as demonstrated on the Marmousi model, is generally good.     

大步长波场深度延拓的理论

波场延拓是地震偏移成像的基础. 快速进行目标区波场延拓对石油勘探中急需发展的深部地震勘探和无组合海量地震数据的成像有重要意义. 在目标区成像中,目前已有的波场延拓方法,包括基于走时计算的Dix方法和射线追踪方法,以及基于小步长波场递推的方法,在适应复杂介质、计算精度和计算效率的某一方面还不能完全满足实际需要. 本文提出一种基于“算子相位”李代数积分的快速计算延拓算子的方法,称为大步长波场延拓方法. 在该方法中,指向目标区的波场延拓算子象征的复相位被表示成波数的线性组合. 线性组合的系数是层速度函数及其导数的深度积分,计算和存储较为方便. 波场延拓算子通过相移算子加校正的方法,利用快速Fourier变换在空间域和波数域予以实现. 利用动力学等价关系导出了便于计算的表达式. 本文比较了算子主象征函数用一步法展开和用两步法展开的精度,从而说明大步长方法的精度要高于递推方法. 在横向和纵向线性变化介质中,将大步长方法的脉冲响应与递推法做了比较,说明大步长延拓算子的走时精度主要取决于相移因子中的横向变速校正项;且在各种近似下,大步长算子发生的频散都非常小.     

Broadband constant-coefficient propagators

The phase error between the real phase shift and the Gazdag background phase shift, due to lateral velocity variations about a reference velocity, can be decomposed into axial and paraxial phase errors. The axial phase error depends only on velocity perturbations and hence can be completely removed by the split‐step Fourier method. The paraxial phase error is a cross function of velocity perturbations and propagation angles. The cross function can be approximated with various differential operators by allowing the coefficients to vary with velocity perturbations and propagation angles. These variable‐coefficient operators require finite‐difference numerical implementation. Broadband constant‐coefficient operators may provide an efficient alternative that approximates the cross function within the split‐step framework and allows implementation using Fourier transforms alone. The resulting migration accuracy depends on the localization of the constant‐coefficient operators. A simple broadband constant‐coefficient operator has been designed and is tested with the SEG/EAEG salt model. Compared with the split‐step Fourier method that applies to either weak‐contrast media or at small propagation angles, this operator improves wavefield extrapolation for large to strong lateral heterogeneities, except within the weak‐contrast region. Incorporating the split‐step Fourier operator into a hybrid implementation can eliminate the poor performance of the broadband constant‐coefficient operator in the weak‐contrast region. This study may indicate a direction of improving the split‐step Fourier method, with little loss of efficiency, while allowing it to remain faster than more precise methods such as the Fourier finite‐difference method.     

自适应空间分区裂步傅立叶偏移方法

本文提出了一种新的偏移方法——自适应空间分区裂步傅立叶（ASDSSF）偏移方法。该方法将剥层相位移方法的思想推广到裂步傅立叶偏移方法，使之当速度场出现强间断时也能精确而有效地成像。原理上ASDSSF偏移属于多参考慢度（MRS）偏移方法，本文的重点是，在不损失精度的同时选取比同类MRS偏移方法更少的参考慢度。我们根据全局速度函数的变化和误差控制参数来选择参考慢度，同一个参考慢度所对应的速度构成一个分区，每一个空间分区可以由几个空间上不连续的子分区组成，从而有效地减小了参考慢度的个数。每一延拓步的参考慢度以及参考慢度的个数和如何构建分区都是根据速度函数自动生成，因此更为合理。为了消除速度场强间断产生的人为噪音，设计了简单有效的f-k域的光滑滤波。我们对一个生成的二维叠前模型和SEG／EAEG盐丘模型进行了试算。     

Double-square-root one-way wave equation prestack tau migration in heterogeneous media

In this paper, source‐receiver migration based on the double‐square‐root one‐way wave equation is modified to operate in the two‐way vertical traveltime (τ) domain. This tau migration method includes reasonable treatment for media with lateral inhomogeneity. It is implemented by recursive wavefield extrapolation with a frequency‐wavenumber domain phase shift in a constant background medium, followed by a phase correction in the frequency‐space domain, which accommodates moderate lateral velocity variations. More advanced τ‐domain double‐square‐root wave propagators have been conceptually discussed in this paper for migration in media with stronger lateral velocity variations. To address the problems that the full 3D double‐square‐root equation prestack tau migration could meet in practical applications, we present a method for downward continuing common‐azimuth data, which is based on a stationary‐phase approximation of the full 3D migration operator in the theoretical frame of prestack tau migration of cross‐line constant offset data. Migrations of synthetic data sets show that our tau migration approach has good performance in strong contrast media. The real data example demonstrates that common‐azimuth prestack tau migration has improved the delineation of the geological structures and stratigraphic configurations in a complex fault area. Prestack tau migration has some inherent robust characteristics usually associated with prestack time migration. It follows a velocity‐independent anti‐aliasing criterion that generally leads to reduction of the computation cost for typical vertical velocity variations. Moreover, this τ‐domain source‐receiver migration method has features that could be of help to speed up the convergence of the velocity estimation.     

3D TABLE-DRIVEN MIGRATION1

An efficient full 3D wavefield extrapolation technique is presented. The method can be used for any type of subsurface structure and the degree of accuracy and dip-angle performance are user-defined. The extrapolation is performed in the space-frequency domain as a space-dependent spatial convolution with recursive Kirchhoff extrapolation operators. To get a high level of efficiency the operators are optimized such that they have the smallest possible size for a specified accuracy and dip-angle performance. As both accuracy and maximum dip-angle are input parameters for the operator calculation, the method offers the possibility of a trade-off between these quantities and efficiency. The operators are calculated in advance and stored in a table for a range of wavenumbers. Once they have been calculated they can be used many times. At the basis of the operator design is the well-known phase-shift operator. Although this operator is exact for homogeneous media only, it is assumed that it may be applied locally in case of inhomogeneities. Lateral velocity variations can then be handled by choosing the extrapolation operator according to the local value of the velocity. Optionally the operators can be designed such that they act as spatially variant high-cut filters. This means that the evanescent field can be suppressed in one pass with the extrapolation. The extrapolation method can be used both in prestack and post-stack applications. In this paper we use it in zero-offset migration. Tests on 2D and 3D synthetic and 2D real data show the excellent quality of the method. The full 3D result is much better then the result of two-pass migration, which has been applied to the same data. The implementation yields a code that is fully vectorizable, which makes the method very suitable for vector computers.     

Migration velocity analysis using pre‐stack wave fields

Using both image and data domains to perform velocity inversion can help us resolve the long and short wavelength components of the velocity model, usually in that order. This translates to integrating migration velocity analysis into full waveform inversion. The migration velocity analysis part of the inversion often requires computing extended images, which is expensive when using conventional methods. As a result, we use pre‐stack wavefield (the double‐square‐root formulation) extrapolation, which includes the extended information (subsurface offsets) naturally, to make the process far more efficient and stable. The combination of the forward and adjoint pre‐stack wavefields provides us with update options that can be easily conditioned to improve convergence. We specifically use a modified differential semblance operator to split the extended image into a residual part for classic differential semblance operator updates and the image (Born) modelling part, which provides reflections for higher resolution information. In our implementation, we invert for the velocity and the image simultaneously through a dual objective function. Applications to synthetic examples demonstrate the features of the approach.     

Internal multiple attenuation by Kirchhoff extrapolation

Surface‐related multiple elimination is the leading methodology for surface multiple removal. This data‐driven approach can be extended to interbed multiple prediction at the expense of a huge increase of the computational burden. This cost makes model‐driven methods still attractive, especially for the three dimensional case. In this paper we present a methodology that extends Kirchhoff wavefield extrapolation to interbed multiple prediction. In Kirchhoff wavefield extrapolation for surface multiple prediction a single round trip to an interpreted reflector is added to the recorded data. Here we show that interbed multiples generated between two interpreted reflectors can be predicted by applying the Kirchhoff wavefield extrapolation operator twice. In the first extrapolation step Kirchhoff wavefield extrapolation propagates the data backward in time to simulate a round trip to the shallower reflector. In the second extrapolation step Kirchhoff wavefield extrapolation propagates the data forward in time to simulate a round trip to the deeper reflector. In the Kirchhoff extrapolation kernel we use asymptotic Green's functions. The prediction of multiples via Kirchhoff wavefield extrapolation is possibly sped up by computing the required traveltimes via a shifted hyperbola approximation. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated by results on both synthetic and field data sets.     

基于一步法波场延拓的正演模拟和逆时偏移成像

通常工业界实现逆时偏移算法时采用有限差分数值方法模拟地震波场,波场模拟常常受稳定性条件限制,且易产生数值频散,成像精度降低.本文引入了一步法波场延拓方法,首先构建声波传播算子,借助Chebyshev多项式和Jacobi-Anger展开式近似传播算子中的e指数项,进而实现波场递推,该方法时间步长的选取不受稳定性条件限制而且不存在空间频散现象.本文将一步法波场延拓方法用于逆时偏移成像的波场模拟,并提出双缓冲区存储策略,在不增加计算量的前提下,大幅降低了逆时偏移方法的波场存储量.波场模拟和逆时偏移成像测试表明,本文提出的一步法波场延拓方法模拟地震波场精度高,消除了频散影响,可在较大时间步长的情况下实现高精度波场模拟;提出的基于一步法波场延拓的逆时偏移方法成像质量好;基于双缓冲区存储策略的逆时偏移成像方法存储成本低.     

Wavefield interpolation in 3D large‐step Fourier wavefield extrapolation

Extrapolating wavefields and imaging at each depth during three‐dimensional recursive wave‐equation migration is a time‐consuming endeavor. For efficiency, most commercial techniques extrapolate wavefields through thick slabs followed by wavefield interpolation within each thick slab. In this article, we develop this strategy by associating more efficient interpolators with a Fourier‐transform‐related wavefield extrapolation method. First, we formulate a three‐dimensional first‐order separation‐of‐variables screen propagator for large‐step wavefield extrapolation, which allows for wide‐angle propagations in highly contrasting media. This propagator significantly improves the performance of the split‐step Fourier method in dealing with significant lateral heterogeneities at the cost of only one more fast Fourier transform in each thick slab. We then extend the two‐dimensional Kirchhoff and Born–Kirchhoff local wavefield interpolators to three‐dimensional cases for each slab. The three‐dimensional Kirchhoff interpolator is based on the traditional Kirchhoff formula and applies to moderate lateral velocity variations, whereas the three‐dimensional Born–Kirchhoff interpolator is derived from the Lippmann–Schwinger integral equation under the Born approximation and is adapted to highly laterally varying media. Numerical examples on the three‐dimensional salt model of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists/European Association of Geoscientists demonstrate that three‐dimensional first‐order separation‐of‐variables screen propagator Born–Kirchhoff depth migration using thick‐slab wavefield extrapolation plus thin‐slab interpolation tolerates a considerable depth‐step size of up to 72 ms, eventually resulting in an efficiency improvement of nearly 80% without obvious loss of imaging accuracy. Although the proposed three‐dimensional interpolators are presented with one‐way Fourier extrapolation methods, they can be extended for applications to general migration methods.     

波场延拓短算子构造方法

在频率-空间域显式叠前深度偏移中，波场深度延拓是通过显 式差分短算子与波场的空间褶积完成的. 基于对显式差分短算子的设计方法的研究，提出了 一种基于相移算子约束的离散光滑插值的构造一维显式短算子的方法. 通过离散光滑插值法 ，在频率-波数域中，以传播区内的相移算子为约束，在传播区外的算子两端处以零点为约 束，进行离散光滑插值，使得所得算子具有二阶光滑可导性，则其对应的频率-空间域中的 算子就可以取得很短. 该方法设计简单，精度高，能够满足波场深度延拓的需要.     

高精度混合法叠前深度偏移及其并行实现

叠前深度偏移是复杂构造成像的重要手段.本文基于波场分裂理论,首先给出了波场延拓的一般方程,即一个上下行波的耦合方程组.通常所用的波场延拓方程就是该耦合方程组的特例.根据平方根算子的近似,推导了一种新的高精度混合法偏移方法,用分裂法即可进行计算.通过对一个横向强烈变速模型的叠后偏移及Marmousi复杂构造模型的叠前偏移计算,说明了方法的有效性,精度较高.采用MPI并行编程实现并行计算,提高了计算效率.该方法可用于对横向强烈变速的复杂构造的精确成像.     

Effective wavefield extrapolation in anisotropic media: accounting for resolvable anisotropy

Spectral methods provide artefact‐free and generally dispersion‐free wavefield extrapolation in anisotropic media. Their apparent weakness is in accessing the medium‐inhomogeneity information in an efficient manner. This is usually handled through a velocity‐weighted summation (interpolation) of representative constant‐velocity extrapolated wavefields, with the number of these extrapolations controlled by the effective rank of the original mixed‐domain operator or, more specifically, by the complexity of the velocity model. Conversely, with pseudo‐spectral methods, because only the space derivatives are handled in the wavenumber domain, we obtain relatively efficient access to the inhomogeneity in isotropic media, but we often resort to weak approximations to handle the anisotropy efficiently. Utilizing perturbation theory, I isolate the contribution of anisotropy to the wavefield extrapolation process. This allows us to factorize as much of the inhomogeneity in the anisotropic parameters as possible out of the spectral implementation, yielding effectively a pseudo‐spectral formulation. This is particularly true if the inhomogeneity of the dimensionless anisotropic parameters are mild compared with the velocity (i.e., factorized anisotropic media). I improve on the accuracy by using the Shanks transformation to incorporate a denominator in the expansion that predicts the higher‐order omitted terms; thus, we deal with fewer terms for a high level of accuracy. In fact, when we use this new separation‐based implementation, the anisotropy correction to the extrapolation can be applied separately as a residual operation, which provides a tool for anisotropic parameter sensitivity analysis. The accuracy of the approximation is high, as demonstrated in a complex tilted transversely isotropic model.     

Prestack exploding reflector modelling and migration for anisotropic media

The double‐square‐root equation is commonly used to image data by downward continuation using one‐way depth extrapolation methods. A two‐way time extrapolation of the double‐square‐root‐derived phase operator allows for up and downgoing wavefields but suffers from an essential singularity for horizontally travelling waves. This singularity is also associated with an anisotropic version of the double‐square‐root extrapolator. Perturbation theory allows us to separate the isotropic contribution, as well as the singularity, from the anisotropic contribution to the operator. As a result, the anisotropic residual operator is free from such singularities and can be applied as a stand alone operator to correct for anisotropy. We can apply the residual anisotropy operator even if the original prestack wavefield was obtained using, for example, reverse‐time migration. The residual correction is also useful for anisotropic parameter estimation. Applications to synthetic data demonstrate the accuracy of the new prestack modelling and migration approach. It also proves useful in approximately imaging the Vertical Transverse Isotropic Marmousi model.     

A robust approach to time‐to‐depth conversion and interval velocity estimation from time migration in the presence of lateral velocity variations

The problem of conversion from time‐migration velocity to an interval velocity in depth in the presence of lateral velocity variations can be reduced to solving a system of partial differential equations. In this paper, we formulate the problem as a non‐linear least‐squares optimization for seismic interval velocity and seek its solution iteratively. The input for the inversion is the Dix velocity, which also serves as an initial guess. The inversion gradually updates the interval velocity in order to account for lateral velocity variations that are neglected in the Dix inversion. The algorithm has a moderate cost thanks to regularization that speeds up convergence while ensuring a smooth output. The proposed method should be numerically robust compared to the previous approaches, which amount to extrapolation in depth monotonically. For a successful time‐to‐depth conversion, image‐ray caustics should be either nonexistent or excluded from the computational domain. The resulting velocity can be used in subsequent depth‐imaging model building. Both synthetic and field data examples demonstrate the applicability of the proposed approach.     

基于起伏地形平化策略的弹性波逆时偏移成像方法

随着能源和资源勘查开采工作的深入,地形强烈起伏的盆山耦合地区的地震资料处理解释技术正日益成为山地地震勘探面临的重要挑战.逆时偏移方法作为精确的地震偏移成像方法之一,能对地下结构进行高精度成像.逆时偏移的核心是地震波场延拓,由于传统的地震波场延拓技术往往基于水平地表条件,相应的方法在直接处理强地形起伏条件下的地震资料时往往存在一定的精度损失.本文引入一种精度无损的处理起伏边界的模型参数化方法：基于贴体网格的地形"平化"策略发展了与地形有关的地震波波动方程数值模拟方法,采用零延迟归一化互相关成像条件实现了起伏地表条件下的弹性波场逆时偏移成像.对工业界的标准Marmousi模型和盐丘模型进行改造,获得了相应起伏地形条件下的复杂几何模型,开展了起伏地表下的地震偏移成像数值试验.结果表明基于贴体网格"平化"策略的逆时偏移成像方法具有较高的灵活性,可适应不同类型起伏地表采集的地震资料,显示出该方法在地震勘探领域的良好应用前景.