1996 UTAM MIDYEAR REPORT

The mission of the Utah Tomography And Modeling/Migration (UTAM) consortium is to develop innovative tomography and imaging methods for exploration geophysics. Online titles of 1996 midyear reports are listed below.

Summary

MIGRATION ANALYSIS

• Quasi-Monte Carlo Migration applied to Alberta Data. (Chen, 11M)
• Greens Function for Migration. (Schuster, 1099K)
• VSP Resolution. (Schuster, 328K)
• Oquirrh Fault 3D Field Experiment. (Morey, 1047K)

FILTERING METHODS

• Least-Squares Migration Filtering of Coherent Noise. (Nemeth, 7539K)
• New Tube Wave Removal Filter. (Meng, 2020K)

MODELING METHODS

• Numerical Test on The 2.5-D Viscoelastic Code in Single Well Model. (Ji, 2323K)
• 3-D Viscoelastic Adaptive Grid Finite-Difference Method. (Ji and Wang, 6717K)
• Axisymmetric Adaptive Grid Finite-Difference Method. (Wang, 567K)

COMPUTER CODE

• DataFormat Conversion Code for UTAM Forward Modeling Codes. (Wu, 149K)
• On-line Resolution Calculator. (Wu 112K)

We would appreciate your comments, critic, research wish list, future research directions, etc.. Send email to "G.T. Schuster" for your comments and suggestion.

Updated sept. 9, 1996 ------- Constructed by Zhaojun Liu