Wave-equation Q tomography and least-squares migration

Abstract

This thesis designs new methods for Q tomography and Q-compensated prestack depth migration when the recorded seismic data suffer from strong attenuation. A motivation of this work is that the presence of gas clouds or mud channels in overburden structures leads to the distortion of amplitudes and phases in seismic waves propagating inside the earth. If the attenuation parameter Q is very strong, i.e., Q

Date of Award	Mar 2016
Original language	English (US)
Awarding Institution	Physical Sciences and Engineering
Supervisor	Gerard Schuster (Supervisor)