Imaging Near-surface Heterogeneities by Natural Migration of SurfaceWaves

Zhaolun Liu; Abdullah AlTheyab; Sherif M. Hanafy; Gerard Schuster

doi:10.1190/segam2016-13845123.1

Imaging Near-surface Heterogeneities by Natural Migration of SurfaceWaves

Zhaolun Liu^*
, Abdullah AlTheyab
, Sherif M. Hanafy
, Gerard Schuster

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We demonstrate that near-surface heterogeneities can be im- aged by natural migration of backscattered surface waves in common shot gathers. No velocity model is required be- cause the data are migrated onto surface points with the virtual Green's functions computed from the shot gathers. Migrating shot gathers recorded by 2D and 3D land surveys validates the effectiveness of detecting near-surface heterogeneities by nat- ural migration. The implication is that more accurate hazard maps can be created by migrating surface waves in land sur- veys.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4946-4950
Number of pages	5
Journal	SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts
Volume	35
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1190/segam2016-13845123.1
State	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes

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