FULL WAVE EQUATION DOWNWARD CONTINUATION OF SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA* |
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| Authors: | D. J. FOSTER Ph. M. CARRION |
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| Affiliation: | 1. 829 PAT, ARCO Oil and Gas Co., 2300 W. Plano Parkway, Plano, Tx 75075, USA.;2. Aldridge Lab. of Applied Geophysics, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. 10027, USA. |
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| Abstract: | A new method for suppressing multiple reflections in seismograms is developed. It is based on a downward continuation procedure which uses the full acoustic wave equation (hyperbolic form) as a downward continuation operator. We demonstrate that the downward continuation of the recorded wave field maps a reflectivity function without multiply reflected events. The method is applied successfully to individual traces of plane-wave decomposed (slant-stacked) synthetic and field data. |
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