Oriented time-domain dip moveout correction for planar reflectors in common-source domain

Abstract

Oriented time-domain imaging can be orders of magnitude faster than the routine techniques, which rely on velocity analysis. The term “oriented” refers to those techniques that use the information carried by local slopes. Time-domain dip moveout (DMO) correction, which has often been ignored by the seismic imaging community, has been coming back to attention within the last few years. I have developed an oriented time-domain DMO correction workflow that does not face the problematic loop between the dip-dependent and/or dip-independent velocities existing in the classic DMO correction algorithms. Use of the proposed approach is also advantageous over the previous oriented techniques; the proposed technique is independent of the wavefront curvature, and the input seismic data do not need to be sorted in two different domains. The application of the technique is limited to reflectors with a small curvature. The theory of the proposed technique is investigated on a simple synthetic data example and then applied to a 2D marine data set.