The grid spacing is and
in the x and z direction, respectively.
The number of time steps are
and the computational effort is
,
or floating point operations per step.
The number of individual shot records is
.
The n terms are about the same magnitude and
is considerably less
in value, typically around 25;
is the operations count of
the finite difference operator.
The complexity of
shot record modeling is
and the
complexity of zero-offset modeling is
which is
less.