Print Email Facebook Twitter Inversion of the multidimensional marchenko equation Title Inversion of the multidimensional marchenko equation Author Van der Neut, J.R. Thorbecke, J.W. Wapenaar, C.P.A. Slob, E.C. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Geoscience & Engineering Date 2015-06-01 Abstract Focusing functions are defined as wavefields that focus at a specified location in a heterogeneous subsurface. These functions can be directly related to Green's functions and hence they can be used for seismic imaging of complete wavefields, including not only primary reflections but all orders of internal multiples. Recently, it has been shown that focusing functions can be retrieved from single-sided reflection data and an initial operator (which can be computed in a smooth background velocity model of the subsurface) by iterative substitution of the multidimensional Marchenko equation. In this work, we show that the Marchenko equation can also be inverted directly for the focusing functions. Although this approach is computationally more expensive than iterative substitution, additional constraints can easily be imposed. Such a flexibility might be beneficial in specific cases, for instance when the recorded data are incomplete or when additional measurements (e.g. from downhole receivers) are available. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f5b72d69-b9ee-4e27-be15-3751a68ca753 Publisher EAGE Source 77th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2015, Madrid, Spain, 1-4- June 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2015 The Author(s) Files PDF 316994.pdf 932.13 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f5b72d69-b9ee-4e27-be15-3751a68ca753/datastream/OBJ/view