Antialiasing conditions in the delay‐time Radon transform

The delay‐time Radon transform parametrizes coherent events in a seismic gather by the far‐offset trace delay time, instead of the conventional parabolic curvature or ray parameter. The reformulation may give a different physical insight into the aliasing effect in the Radon transformation and may also lead to a different algorithm. The delay‐time parametrization enables modelling of a seismic gather as the sum of coherent events with any form of moveout curve. For example, a parabolic curve can be used for traces within a moderate offset range and a linear moveout for far‐offset traces. When using this delay‐time Radon transform, it is the number of traces, rather than the spatial sampling, of the input gather that directly controls aliasing in the Radon transform image. A preconditioning operator that implicitly increases the number of input traces by spatial reconstruction (without physically performing the spatial resampling) may minimize aliasing noise in the Radon transform image.