Filtered Kirchhoff Migration of Cross Correlations of Ambient Noise Signals
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In this paper we study passive sensor imaging with ambient noise sources by suitably migrating cross correlations of the recorded signals. We propose and study different imaging functionals. A new functional is introduced that is an inverse Radon transform applied to a special function of the cross correlation matrix. We analyze the properties of the new imaging functional in the high-frequency regime which shows that it produces sharper images than the usual Kirchhoff migration functional. Numerical simulations confirm the theoretical predictions.
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