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    A recipe for practical full-waveform inversion in orthorhombic anisotropy

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    Alkhalifah, Tariq Ali cc
    Masmoudi, Nabil cc
    Oh, Juwon
    KAUST Department
    Earth Science and Engineering Program
    Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
    Seismic Wave Analysis Group
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    2016-12-01
    Online Publication Date
    2016-12-01
    Print Publication Date
    2016-12
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10754/631119
    
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    Abstract
    Multiparameter full-waveform inversion (FWI) usually suffers from the inherent tradeoff in the multiparameter nature of the model space. In orthorhombic anisotropy, such tradeoff is magnified by the large number of parameters involved in representing the elastic or even the acoustic approximation of such a medium. However, using a new parameterization with distinctive scattering features, we can condition FWI to invert for the parameters to which the data are sensitive at different stages, scales, and locations in the model. Specifically, with a combination made up of a velocity and particular ratios of the elastic coefficients, the scattering potential of the anisotropy parameters has stationary scattering radiation patterns as a function of the type of anisotropy. With our new parameterization, P-wave data are mainly sensitive to the scattering potential of four parameters: the horizontal velocity in the x direction, v; -, which provides scattering mainly near zero offset in the x-x vertical plane; -, which is the ratio of the horizontal velocity squared in the x and x directions; and describing the anellipticity in the horizontal plane. Since, with this parameterization, the radiation pattern for the horizontal velocity and - is azimuthally independent, we can perform an initial VTI inversion for these two parameters, and then use the other two parameters to fit the azimuthal variation in the data. This can be done at the reservoir level or any region of the model. Including the transmission from reflections, the migration velocity analysis (MVA) component, into the picture, multiazimuth surface seismic data are mainly sensitive to the long-wavelength components of v, two dimensionless parameters through the diving waves, and three other dimensionless parameters in the transmission to or from reflectors (especially, in the presence of large offsets). They are also sensitive to the short-wavelength component of v and -.
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    Alkhalifah T, Masmoudi N, Oh J-W (2016) A recipe for practical full-waveform inversion in orthorhombic anisotropy. The Leading Edge 35: 1076–1083. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/tle35121076.1.
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    The authors would like to thank Statoil ASA and the Volve license partners, ExxonMobil E&P Norway AS and Bayerngas Norge AS, for the release of the Volve data. The views expressed in this paper are the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Statoil ASA and the Volve Field license partners. The authors would like to thank Marianne Houbiers for her help with the data and her many useful suggestions throughout. We thank King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) for its support. For computer time, this research used the resources of the Supercomputing Laboratory at KAUST. We also thank Ilya Tsvankin and Alexey Stovas for many useful discussions and their critical review of the paper.
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    Society of Exploration Geophysicists
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    The Leading Edge
    DOI
    10.1190/tle35121076.1
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    https://library.seg.org/doi/10.1190/tle35121076.1
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    10.1190/tle35121076.1
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