Elastic full waveform inversion of multicomponent data
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Subsurface seismic imaging has relied on the acoustic wave-propagation model for many decades. This choice has been justified by the greater availability of acoustic only data, i.e., ocean streamers, higher computational cost of shear-wave processing, and challenges in wave-mode separation methods. However, in the last few years, seismic exploration has moved to more complex subsurface targets, such as sub-salt and sub-basalt. In these scenarios, including a greater range of physical processes is advantageous. Elastic modeling and inversion achieves that by accounting for both pressure and shear wave propagations. Therefore, a greater understanding of elastic wave-equation methods in seismic imaging becomes fundamental. I formulate the imaging condition for the elastic wave-equation using the stress-velocity set of first-order partial differential equations. I show that the elastic imaging condition can be obtained similarly for density-Lame or density-velocity parameterizations of the model space. I demonstrate that these conditions are different than the acoustic case and can be obtained by calculating the adjoint Born approximation of the nonlinear problem. I discuss how elastic wave-equation modeling and imaging is computationally more intensive than acoustic methods. I propose solutions for memory cost and computational time optimizations and show performance gains in a simple synthetic example. Using the proposed formulation and computational improvements, I apply the elastic imaging condition to the Marmousi 2 synthetic model. I show an elastic reverse time migration (ERTM) result with model components in the density-Lame parameterization. I also show how this image can qualitatively indicate anomalies in a Lame parameter ratio. Finally, I combine all methodologies presented into an elastic full waveform inversion (EFWI) workflow. I apply this workflow to a 2D field data set acquired using four-component ocean-bottom nodes (4C OBNs). I obtain inversion results for density, P- and S-velocities up to 10 Hertz (Hz) frequency data. Finally, I combine P- and S-velocities to calculate a Vp/Vs model. The calculated model is composed of layers with Vp/Vs values between 1.5 and 2.3, which is consistent with the expected geology of the basin.
Description
Type of resource | text |
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Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
Extent | 1 online resource. |
Publication date | 2017 |
Issuance | monographic |
Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
Associated with | Catao Alves, Gustavo |
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Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Geophysics. |
Primary advisor | Biondi, Biondo, 1959- |
Thesis advisor | Biondi, Biondo, 1959- |
Thesis advisor | Clapp, Robert G. (Robert Graham) |
Thesis advisor | Mavko, Gary, 1949- |
Advisor | Clapp, Robert G. (Robert Graham) |
Advisor | Mavko, Gary, 1949- |
Subjects
Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
Statement of responsibility | Gustavo Catao Alves. |
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Note | Submitted to the Department of Geophysics. |
Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2017. |
Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2017 by Gustavo Catao Alves
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