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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
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Acoustic and elastic least-squares two-way wave equation migration with exact adjoint operator
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A major problem in exploration seismology entails estimating subsurface structures and properties via linearized inversion. The problem is often called ''least-squares migration" where seismic imaging is posed as an iterative least-squares problem. The iterative solution employs the method of...
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Gradient projection methods with applications to simultaneous source seismic data processing
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Simultaneous source acquisition, or blended acquisition, has become an important strategy to reduce the cost of seismic surveys by allowing overlapping between different sources. The major technical challenge associated with this acquisition design is the strong interferences caused by the...
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Spring 2018
Conventional seismic migration operators produce an image that suffers from low resolution, sampling artifacts, and poorly balanced amplitudes. An improved image can be obtained by casting migration as a least-squares optimization problem in which the goal is to minimize the difference between...
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Fall 2017
Historically seismic data processing has relied on the acoustic approximation to process single component data under the simplifying assumption that the recorded wavefield consists mainly of compressional wave modes. With the advancement of multicomponent seismic technology there is an increased...