Seismic imaging provides vital tools for the exploration of potential hydrocarbon reserves and subsequent production-planning activities. The acquisition of high-resolution, regularly sampled seismic data may be hindered by physical or financial constraints, which lead to undersampled, sparse seismic data. However, if seismic data are available at a higher resolution and sampled evenly throughout the region of interest, the generated 3D models of petrophysical properties could be improved. Such improvements would show potential benefits through the successive steps of reservoir modeling and production planning.
Traditional Approaches
Traditional methods used to overcome the previously mentioned data-quality issues can be divided broadly into three categories.
- Wave-equation-based methods.
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