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Abstract Earlier work developed a method of migration of seismic data based on numerical solutions of partial differential equations. The method was designed for the geometry of a single source with a line of surface receivers. Here the method is extended to the geometry of stacked sections, or what is nearly the same thing, to the geometry where a source and receiver move together along the surface as in marine profiling. The basic idea simply stated is that the best receiver line for any reflector is just at (or above) the reflector. Data received at a surface line of receivers may be extrapolated by computer to data at a hypothetical receiver line at any depth. By considering migration before stacking over offset, it is found that certain ambiguities in velocity analysis may be avoided.
Claerbout et al. (Sun,) studied this question.