Seismic Imaging and Inversion: Volume 1 : Application of Linear Inverse Theory (Paperback)

1. Introduction: modeling, migration, imaging, and inversion; 2. Basic migration concepts; 3. Prestack migration; 4. Migration limitations; 5. Models for wave propagation and reflection; 6. Green's functions; 7. The scattering potential; 8. Reflectivity; 9. Synthesizing reflection data; 10. f-k migration; 11. Asymptotic modeling and migration; 12. Residual asymptotic migration; 13. Asymptotic data mapping and continuation; 14. Least-squares asymptotic migration; Appendix A. Conventions and glossary of terms; Appendix B. Coordinates, vectors, and identities; Appendix C. Fourier and radon transforms; Appendix D. Surface and pointwise reflectivity; Appendix E. Useful filters; Appendix F. The phase integral and the stationary phase approximation; Appendix G. The diffraction integral; Appendix H. Wave-based, ray-based and reflector-based coordinates.