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In this paper, we provide a 5-parameter stacking formula to transform 2-D prestack data into a particular common-offset section. This requires the knowledge of the near-surface velocity only and it is expected that ray theory holds to describe primary reflections. The earth model can be arbitrarily inhomogeneous. The new stacking approach can be viewed as a generalization of the 3-parameter common-reflection-surface (CRS) stack, by which 2-D multicoverage data are stacked into a simulated zero-offset section. The new 5-parameter formula can handle P-P, P-S and S-S reflections.
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Zhang, Y., Bergler, S., Tygel, M., Hubral, P. (2002). Model-independent Travel-time Attributes for 2-D, Finite-offset Multicoverage Reflections. In: Pšenčík, I., Červený, V. (eds) Seismic Waves in Laterally Inhomogeneous Media. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8146-3_11
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