Seismic data interpolation with the offset continuation equation

Sergey Fomel

sergey@sep.stanford.edu

ABSTRACT

I propose a finite-difference offset continuation filter for interpolating seismic reflection data. The filter is constructed from the offset continuation differential equation and is applied on frequency slices in the log-stretch frequency domain. Synthetic data tests produce encouraging results: nearly perfect interpolation of a constant-velocity dataset with a complex reflector model and reasonably good interpolation of the Marmousi dataset.