DMO BY SPIRAL DATA MOVEMENT

The parallel implementation of DMO in a two-dimensional space is straightforward. Biondi 1991 describes a simple algorithm where the traces are laid out local to each processor. The DMO process then consists of a trace stretch and a nearest neighbor shift along the midpoint axis.

In three dimensions, the data shift is not restricted to a single axis but requires a movement of the input traces across a two-dimensional space. Biondi 1992 uses the same layout to apply DMO to 3-D marine data. The algorithm takes advantage of the regular data movement in the in-line direction because of the uniform sampling of the shot locations. However, 3-D land surveys record shot profiles of varying geometry (an example is shown in Figure ), and thus, the shot axis can not be processed in parallel.

 

land3d Figure 1 This simple 3-D land acquisition geometry exhibits the non-recurrence of the shot profiles. As opposed to marine surveys, the geophone line does not move along with the shot location.