Practical Aspects

Seismic Migration has been widely acclaimed by reviewers: one described it as ``undoubtedly excellent for geophysicists who require a thorough understanding of migration methods'', while another commented: ``Professor Berkhout leads his readers quickly to all essential points. The systematic treatment of the subject in terms of classical principles of acoustics and optics comes as a real refreshment. My professional colleagues value the book ... ''

Front Cover; Seismic Migration: Imaging of Acoustic Energy by Wave Field Extrapolation; Copyright Page; Dedication; PREFACE; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER I. BASIC CONCEPTS; 1. One -- dimensional Fourier transforms; 2. The basic physical experiment in seismics; 3. The monochromatic seismic data matrix; 4. The convolution matrix; 5. Differentiation in terms of convolution; 6. The wave equation; 7. Two -- dimensional Fourier transforms; 8. Huygens' principle; 9. Principle of forward wave field extrapolation; 10. Geometrical aspects of migration; 11. References

CHAPTER II. PRINCIPLES OF SEISMIC INVERSION1. Principle of inverse wave field extrapolation; 2. Two-dimensional model of shot records; 3. Principle of pre-stack migration; 4. Two-dimensional model of zero offset data; 5. Principle of post-stack migration; 6. Migration of common offset data; 7. Migration of shot records; 8. References; CHAPTER III. USER ORIENTED DISCUSSION OF SEISMIC MIGRATION TECHNIQUES; 1. Stacking velocities and migration velocities; 2. Recursive versus nonrecursive methods; 3. Time migration versus depth migration; 4. Kirchhoff summation approach; 5. Wave number methods

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