Velocity continuation and the anatomy of residual prestack time migration

Acknowledgments

This work was completed when the author was a member of the Stanford Exploration Project (SEP) at Stanford University. The financial support was provided by the SEP sponsors.

I thank Bee Bednar, Biondo Biondi, Jon Claerbout, Sergey Goldin, Bill Harlan, David Lumley, and Bill Symes for useful and stimulating discussions. Paul Fowler, Hugh Geiger, Samuel Gray, and one anonymous reviewer provided valuable suggestions that improved the quality of the paper.