Reflector Extraction from Marine Shallow Seismic Broadband Data

A time domain synthetic reflection seismogram is detailed and, as a limiting condition on this model, the analytic reflection impulse response for a one-dimensional lossless acoustic medium with piecewise continuous acoustic impedance is obtained. This analytic impulse response solution provides insight to some of the poorly understood aspects of acoustic reflections from stratified and smoothly varying media. It offers as well an approach for the inverse problem of extracting acoustic impedance profiles from reflection response data.