Amoco model

Introduction

The Amoco dataset found within the Madagascar repository was created in 1997 and presented formally at the talk Strike shooting, dip shooting, widepatch shooting - Does prestack migration care? A model study given by John Etgen and Carl Regone at the 1998 SEG convention. Its creators describe the model as the Carpatheans thrusting over the North Sea. The model was specifically created to illustrate the limitation of Kirchhoff migration. The model presented here is a single 2D line from the 3D model presented at the talk. The information presented here was taken from the abstract to their paper which can be found at the SEG website.

The Madagascar Amoco repository contains all the files listed in table 1. The repository contains several velocity models of varying smoothness as well as a shot record.

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       352292 2005-04-20 07:34 velsmooth.HH
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       352278 2005-04-20 07:34 velsmoother.HH
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      2269415 2005-04-20 07:34 velmodel.hh
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     151395933 2005-04-20 07:34 shots.hh

Table 1. A list of files contained within the Madagascar amoco dataset repository

Amoco model