Design of inverse Kirchhoffstyle filters by LSCG.pdfVIP

Stanford Exploration Project R eport De cember p ages Stanford Exploration Project R eport De cember p ages Design of inverse Kirchhostyle lters by LSCG Jon F Claerbout keywords twodimensional least squares modeling ABSTRACT Using the leastsquares conjugategradient metho ds describ ed in PVI I devise D inverse lters to a Kirchho mo deling impulse resp onse The lter values do not ll a D plane but are constrained to lie along the same tra jectory as the impulse resp onse The technique is also applicable to DMO and residual migration op erators It seems that the cost of computing these op erators will b e comparable to the usual cost of applying them INTRODUCTION An elementary problem in timeseries analysis is to design a onedimensional lter that is inverse to any sp ecied lter Such an op eration could b e done in the Fourier domain were it not for the added requirement that the desired lter b e of denite time duration or mayb e contain sp ecied gaps The same concepts apply to the p oint resp onse of sound in a D earth mo del Migration is a form of D ltering where we assume that crosscorrelation with the earths impulse resp onse is a satisfac tory approximation to inverse filtering Basic Kirchho migration assumes the approximate inverse lter which in principle is a full D array vanishes everywhere except along the tra jectory given by the wavefront found by ray tracing The question of amplitude versus oset AVO arises in two ways rst what is the b est AVO on the earths impulse resp onse and second what is the b est AVO to put on the m