Abstract

Migration is a process which removes the effects of wave propagation from seismic data. The output of seismic migration in which seismic events are geometrically re- positioned in either space or time to the location the event occurred in the subsurface rather than the location it was recorded at the surface, thereby creating a more accurate image of the subsurface. The position of horizontal reflector in depth will appear as a horizontal reflector on the time section whereas a dipping reflector is always incorrectly positioned on the seismic section. It is the task of migration to correct the mispositioning. Migration moves dipping reflectors to their true subsurface positions and collapses diffractions resulting in a migrated image that typically has an increased spatial resolution and resolves areas of complex geology much better than non-migrated images. Now-a-days, depth imaging is the need of the industry to address the imaging issues. In this study, Kirchhoff