The Common-Reflection-Surface (CRS) stack is a new seismic processing method for simulating zero-offset (ZO) and common-offset (CO) sections. It is based on a second-order
hyperbolic paraxial approximation of reflection traveltimes in the vicinity of a central ray. For ZO section simulation the central ray is a normal ray, while for CO section simulation the central ray is a finite-offset ray. In addition to the ZO section, the CRS stack method also provides estimates of wavefield kinematic attributes useful for solving interval velocity inversion, geometrical spreading calculation, Fresnel zone estimate, and also diffraction events simulation. In this work, Its proposed a new strategy to do a pre-stack depth migration by using the
CRS derived wavefield kinematic attributes, so-called CRS based pre-stack depth migration (CRS-PSDM) method. The CRS-PSDM method uses the CRS results (ZO section and kinematic attributes) to construct an optimized stack traveltime surface along which the amplitudes of the multi-coverage seismic data are to be summed and the result is put in a point of the migration target zone in depth. In the same sense as in Kirchhoff type pre-stack depth migration (K-PSDM), the CRSPSDM method needs a migration velocity model. Unlike the K-PSDM method, the CRS-PSDM needs only to calculate the zero-offset traveltimes, i.e, along only ray conecting the considered point in depth to a given coincident position of source-receptor at surface. The final result is a zero-offset time-to-depth converted seismic image of reflectors from pre-stack seismic data.
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