The primary use of technical computing in the oil and gas industries is for seismic imaging of the earth’s subsurface, driven by the business need for making wellinformed drilling decisions during petroleum exploration and production. Since each oil/gas well in exploration areas costs several tens of millions of dollars, producing high-quality seismic images in a reasonable time can significant...

Once disregarded as noise, scattered seismic waves are finding increasing application in subsurface imaging. This sea change is driven by the increasing density and quality of seismic recordings and advances in waveform modeling which, together, are allowing seismologists to exploit their unique properties. In addition to extensive application in the energy exploration industry, seismic scatter...

Reverse time migration (RTM) is a commonly employed imaging technique in seismic applications (e.g., to image reservoirs of oil). Its standard implementation cannot account for multiple scattering/reverberation. For this reason it has not yet found application in nondestructive evaluation (NDE). This paper applies RTM imaging to NDE applications in bounded samples, where reverberation is always...

An analysis of a passive seismic method for subsurface imaging is presented, in which ambient seismic noise is employed as the source of illumination of underground scatterers. The imaging algorithm can incorporate new data into the image in a recursive fashion, which causes image background noise to diminish over time. Under the assumption of spatially-incoherent ambient noise, an analytical e...

Imaging subsalt structures under the complex overburdens is a challenging task in seismic exploration due to the poor illumination of seismic waves. To solve the illumination problem, geophysicists designed the wide azimuth acquisition. Moreover, WAZ acquisition improves the signal to noise ratio by increasing the azimuthal fold, and reduces multiple interferences in the final images (Etgen, 20...

Ž . A combination of ground penetrating radar GPR and seismic imaging has been performed in a gypsum quarry in western Europe. The objective was to localize main cracks and damaged areas inside some of the pillars, which presented indications of having reached stress limits. The GPR imaging was designed from classical profiles with GPR processes and a customized, PC-based image-processing softw...

[1] Since it has already been demonstrated that point-topoint seismic propagation Green Functions can be extracted from seismic noise, it should be possible to image Earth structure using the ambient noise field. Seismic noise data from 148 broadband seismic stations in Southern California were used to extract the surface wave arrival-times between all station pairs in the network. The seismic ...