Mathematics of Multidimensional Seismic Imaging, Migration, and Inversion

Download or read book Mathematics of Multidimensional Seismic Imaging, Migration, and Inversion written by N. Bleistein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last 40 years geophysicists have found that it is possible to construct images and even determine important physical characteristics of rocks that can yield information about oil and gas bearing structures in the earth. To make these images and extract this information requires the application of an advanced understanding of the mathematical physics of wave propagation. The oil and gas industry labels a major collection of the necessary seismic data processing methods by the name seismic "migration". This text ist the first to treat many kinds of migration in a unified mahtematical way. The audience is mathematically oriented geophysicists or applied mathematicians working in the field of "inverse scattering imaging". The text can serve as a bridge between the applied math and geophysics community by presenting geophysicists with a practical introduction to advanced engineering mathematics, while presenting mathematicians with a window into the world of the mathematically sophistiated geophysicist.