Prestack seismic data reconstruction using weighted parabolic Radon transform

Weighted Parabolic Radon Transform (WPRT) method for prestack seismic data reconstruction is proposed based on the parabolic assumption of seismic events in CMP gather after the partial NMO. Owing to introducing varying weight coefficients in WPRT, the proposed WPRT can simultaneously regularize and reconstruct the irregular seismic data with a lot of missing traces, which means a very important improvement to the conventional parabolic Radon transform. The implementation of the proposed algorithm is presented for the complex irregular seismic data and the data with missing traces of near and medium offsets. The results of the theoretical model and the field data demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.