Type
Conference PaperKAUST Department
Earth Science and Engineering ProgramExtreme Computing Research Center
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Seismic Wave Analysis Group
Date
2017-05-26Online Publication Date
2017-05-26Print Publication Date
2017-06-12Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/626990
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Seismic inversions of salt bodies are challenging when updating velocity models based on Born approximation- inspired gradient methods. We propose a variance-based method for velocity model reconstruction in regions complicated by massive salt bodies. The novel idea lies in retrieving useful information from simultaneous updates corresponding to different single frequencies. Instead of the commonly used averaging of single-iteration monofrequency gradients, our algorithm iteratively reconstructs salt bodies in an outer loop based on updates from a set of multiple frequencies after a few iterations of full-waveform inversion. The variance among these updates is used to identify areas where considerable cycle-skipping occurs. In such areas, we update velocities by interpolating maximum velocities within a certain region. The result of several recursive interpolations is later used as a new starting model to improve results of conventional full-waveform inversion. An application on part of the BP 2004 model highlights the evolution of the proposed approach and demonstrates its effectiveness.Citation
Ovcharenko OO, Kazei VV, Peter D, Alkhalifah T (2017) Variance-based Salt Body Reconstruction. 79th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2017. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201700832.Publisher
EAGE Publicationsae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3997/2214-4609.201700832