Abstract
Prospecting for oil and gas resources poses the problem of determining the geological structure of the earth's crust from indirect measurements. Seismic migration is an acoustic image reconstruction technique based on the inversion of the scalar wave equation. Extensive computation is necessary before reliable information can be extracted from large sets of recorded data. In this paper a collection of “industrial” migration techniques, each giving rise to a data parallel algorithm, is outlined. Computer simulations on synthetic seismic data illustrate the problem and the approach.
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Bonomi, E., Cabitza, G. Migration of seismic data. J Stat Phys 76, 703–723 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02188682
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02188682