中国科学技术大学 Jia Xiaofeng--Home-- Xiaofeng Jia and Ru-Shan Wu(*), 2009, Superwide-angle one-way wave propagator and its applications in imaging steep salt flanks, GEOPHYSICS, 74(4): S75-S83.

Xiaofeng Jia and Ru-Shan Wu(*), 2009, Superwide-angle one-way wave propagator and its applications in imaging steep salt flanks, GEOPHYSICS, 74(4): S75-S83.

Release time:2021-07-26

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Abstract:: One-way wave propagators have been used extensively in forward and inverse problems. The advantages of one-way wave propagators are the fast speed of computation and the large savings in computer resources. However, regular one-way wave propagators have inherent angle limitation to within 90° of the preferred direction (e.g., z-direction). We propose to overcome the limitation by a superwide-angle one-way method, which combines and interpolates two orthogonally propagated one-way wavefields in the 2D case. A weight function determined by the propagation angle is employed to combine the two one-way wavefields. In the current implementation, we use the wavefield gradient to estimate the propagation angle. Numerical experiments show that the proposed method has accurate superwide-angle (>90°) propagation and can model turning waves well. By applying the superwide-angle one-way wave propagator on several synthetic model data sets, we can demonstrate the validity of the method in imaging steep and overhanging salt flanks.