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Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Geophysics, 4(71), p. SI165-SI175, 2006

DOI: 10.1190/1.2209541

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Coherent interferometric imaging in clutter

Journal article published in 2006 by Liliana Borcea, George Papanicolaou, Chrysoula Tsogka ORCID
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Abstract

Coherent interferometry is an array imaging method in which we back propa-gate, or migrate, crosscorrelations of the traces over appropriately chosen space-time windows, rather than the traces themselves. The size of the space-time windows is critical and depends on two parameters. One is the decoherence frequency, which is proportional to the reciprocal of the delay spread in the traces produced by the clutter. The other is the decoherence length, which also depends on the clutter. As is usual, the clutter is modeled by random fluctations in the medium properties. In isotropic clutter the decoherence length is typically much smaller than the array aper-ture. In layered random media the decoherence length along the layers can be quite large. We show that when the crosscorrelations of the traces are calculated adaptively then coherent interferometry can provide images that are statistically stable relative to small scale clutter in the environment. This means that the images we obtain are not sensitive to the detailed form of the clutter. They only depend on its overall statistical properties. However, clutter does reduce the resolution of the images by 1 blurring. We show how the amount of blurring can be minimized by using adaptive interferometric imaging algorithms, and discuss the relation between the coherence properties of the array data and the loss in resolution caused by the blurring.