1998 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 1998 annual reports are listed below.

PREFACE (Schuster, PS: 0.1MB, PDF: 60KB )

MIGRATION ANALYSIS

• Application of Poststack Migration Deconvolution to 3-D Data (Hu and Paul Valasek (Phillips), PS: 17 MB, PDF: 2.6MB)
• Poststack Migration Deconvolution (Hu and Schuster, PS: 7.6 MB, PDF: 6.6MB)
• Correction of Cable Feathering and Velocity Errors by Migration Deconvolution (Hu, PS: 7.6 MB , PDF: 12MB)
• Wavepath Migration versus Kirchhoff Migration: Theory and Poststack Examples (Hongchuan Sun and Gerard T. Schuster, PS: 2.6 MB , PDF: 0.8MB)
• Wavepath Migration versus Kirchhoff Migration: Prestack Examples (Hongchuan Sun, PS: 2 MB , PDF: 1.6MB)
• Stationary Phase Approach To The True Amplitude Migration (Jing Chen, PS: 0.6 MB , PDF: 0.2MB)
• True-amplitude Imaging By Reflector-based Remigration (Jing Chen, PS: 1.7 MB , PDF: 0.4MB)
• Migration of Transmitted PS Arrivals from Ore Bodies and Salt Flanks (David Sheley, PS: 2.9 MB , PDF: 2MB)
• Maximum Entropy Migration (Jianhua Yu, PS: 2.7 MB , PDF: 5.8MB)

MIGRATION VELOCITY ANALYSIS

• Generalization of Velocity Continuation to Arbitrary Migration Velocity (Gerard T. Schuster, PS: 0.1 MB , PDF: 80KB)
• Migration Velocity Analysis (Jing Chen, PS: 3.7 MB , PDF: 1.9MB)

TOMOGRAPHY

• Reflection Traveltime Tomography Using Dynamic Smoothing (Sheng, PS: 0.4 MB, PDF: 0.1MB)
• Extended Diffraction-Slice Theorem for Wavepath Traveltime Tomography (Sheng, PS: 0.1 MB, PDF: 0.1MB)
• Processing the Noranda Kidd Creek Crosswell Data (Jianxin Hu, PS: 0.5 MB, PDF: 0.4MB)

MODELING METHODS

• 3D Traveltime Calculation for Anisotropic Media(Yue Wang, Tamas Nemeth and Robert Langan (Chevron), PS: 0.4 MB, PDF: 0.3MB)

MULTIPLE ELIMINATION METHODS

• Comparison of Multiple Attenuation Methods with Least-Squares Migration Filtering(Yue Wang, PS: 1.0 MB, PDF: 2.1MB)

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.