1997 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. Titles of online 1997 midyear reports are listed below.

PREFACE

• Summary (Schuster, PS: 370K, PDF: 40K )
• 1998 Agreement Form ( PS: 300K, PDF: 30K )

MIGRATION ANALYSIS

• Greens Functions for 3-D Seismic Migration. (Hu, PS: 18.8M, PDF: 6M)
• Deconvolution of the Recording Footprint Noise in Migration Images. (Hu, PS:7.5M, PDF: 2.5M)
• Rapid Calculation of the 3-D Recording Footprint. (Liu, PS: 7M , PDF: 5M)
• Migration of Uniformly Interpolated West Texas Data. (Chen, PS: 9M, PDF: 2M)
• Point Scatterer Migration Responses for West Texas Geometry. (Chen, PS: 75M, PDF: 75M)
• Recording Footprint Noise Removal by 3-D Least Squares Migration. (Schuster, PS: 2.2M, PDF: 0.5M )

TOMOGRAPHY

• New Oquirrh Fault Imaging Results. (David M. Morey, PS: 32M, PDF: 0.8M)
• Extraction of Reflections from Tube Waves. (Meng, PS: 2M, PDF: 0.1M )

MODELING METHODS

• New Damping Absorbing Boundary Conditions. (Wang, PS: 230K, PDF: 90K)

INVERSE VSP METHODS

• IVSPWD Synthetic Tests. (Sun, PS: 9.4M, PDF: 6M)

COMPUTER CODES

• Forward Modeling GOCAD Modules. (Liu, PS: 8.5M, PDF: 4M)

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

Updated Oct. 1, 1997 ------- Constructed by Jing Chen