AVO was primarily put forward to improve the ability to detect the hydrocarbon, but today it develops much beyond of this scope, and permeates every aspects of seismic exploration.

• AVO的提出最初仅仅是为了提高烃检测能力，今天AVO的发展已经超出了这个范畴，它已经和正在渗透到地震勘探的各个领域。