Efficacy of Diffraction Imaging for Identification of Faults and Fractures: A Case Study with (a) Full Azimuth 3D Land Data and (b) Narrow Azimuth 3D Marine Data

This paper presents a method for maximizing fault information from depth migrated narrow-azimuth as well as full-azimuth seismic data. The study demonstrates that depth domain diffraction imaging can be used to generate higher resolution fault definition than conventional reflectivity volumes, or their derivative post-stack attributes.