Advanced Reflection Seismology and Seismic Imaging

The course starts with the fundamentals of seismic wave theory, which covers the propagation of waves through homogeneous and inhomogeneous media, decomposition of waves into downgoing and upgoing wave fields, and reflection of waves at interfaces between layers with different geological properties. Next, it discusses more advanced concepts like Rayleighs reciprocity theorem, Greens functions and wave field representations, from which forward and inverse wave field extrapolation algorithms are derived. Finally, these concepts are used together to derive a systematic forward model of seismic reflection data and it is shown how seismic imaging and multiple elimination can be derived by applying the inverse of this model to the seismic data.