1997 UTAM ANNUAL 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 1997 annual reports are listed below.

PREFACE (Schuster, PS: 1MB, PDF: 0.1MB )

MIGRATION ANALYSIS

• Greens Function for 3-D Seismic Migration (Hu and Schuster, PS: 21MB, PDF: 12MB)
• Migration Green's Function by a Stationary Phase Approximation (Schuster, 1M, PDF: 0.2MB)
• Migration Deconvolution (Hu, PS: 44MB , PDF: 14MB)
• Acquisition Footprint Removal by Least Squares Migration (Schuster, PS: 8MB , PDF: 1.7MB)
• Survey Design by Constrained Optimization (Liu, PS: 25MB , PDF: 1.4MB)
• Point Scatterer Migration Responses for Uniform, Regular and Quasi-Monte Carlo Geometries (Chen, PS: 78MB , PDF: 98MB)

TOMOGRAPHY

• Viscoelastic Waveform Inversion as a Tool for AVO Studies (Wang, PS: 13MB, PDF: 0.7MB)
• AVO Posibilities With Least Squares Migration (Chen, PS: 7MB, PDF: 3MB)
• Crosswell Imaging with Surface Sources and Tube Waves (Meng and Schuster, PS: 3.5MB, PDF: 0.3MB)
• Seismic CAT-Scan of an Ancient Earthquake (Morey, PS: 9.5MB, PDF: 0.5MB)

FILTERING

• Surface Wave Removal by Least Squares Migration Filtering(Sun, PS: 5.6MB, PDF: 0.7MB)
• LSM Seperation of P-P and P-SV waves (Wang, PS: 10MB, PDF: 1MB)

MODELING METHODS

• New Damping Absorbing Boundary Conditions (Wang, PS: 0.9MB, PDF: 0.1MB)

INVERSE VSP METHODS

• Improved Autocorrelogram Imaging Condition (Schuster, PS: 1.6MB, PDF: 0.25MB)
• Autocorrelogram Imaging of Friendswood RVSP Data(Meng and Schuster, PS: 1.8MB, PDF: 0.6MB)

COMPUTER CODES

• Forward Modeling GOCAD Modules (Liu, PS: 7.2MB, PDF: 0.2MB)
• Promax TI Finite Difference Modeler (Thorson, PS: 3MB, PDF: 0.2MB)

We would appreciate your comments, critics, research wish list, future research directions, etc.. Send email to Gerard T. Schuster (schuster@mines.utah.edu) for your comments and suggestion.

Updated Feb. 18, 1998 ------- Constructed by Jing Chen