Passive seismic full waveform inversion with unknown onsets in an orthorhombic anisotropic medium
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Wang, Hanchen
Alkhalifah, Tariq Ali

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Earth Science and Engineering ProgramPhysical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Seismic Wave Analysis Group
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2019-08-10Permanent link to this record
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Full waveform inversion (FWI) based methods are getting more attractive in passive seismic (microseismic) monitoring studies. A high resolution knowledge of the medium in which the events occur is crucial to proper monitoring. In most cases, not only the velocity, but also the anisotropy has a large influence on locating passive events related to hydraulic fracturing. Due to the inherent anisotropy nature of most rocks associated with unconventional reservoirs, accounting for anisotropy is even more important in such investigations. We propose a 3D acoustic orthorhombic FWI method for passive seismic events to invert for the source image, source function and the model parameters, without any a prior knowledge about source location or source function in time. In order to mitigate the effect of the unknown source ignition time, we convolve reference traces with the observed and modeled data. A total variation regularization is applied to improve the robustness of the model parameters inversion considering the limited sources and illumination angles of microseismic experiments. The adjoint-state method is used to derive the gradient for the source image, source function and the anisotropic model parameters. The proposed method produces good estimates of the source location and the model structures for the modified orthorhombic 3D SEG/EAGE overthrust model.Citation
Wang, H., & Alkhalifah, T. (2019). Passive seismic full waveform inversion with unknown onsets in an orthorhombic anisotropic medium. SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2019. doi:10.1190/segam2019-3214356.1Sponsors
We thank KASUT and KAUST Supercomputing Lab for supporting to this research. We thank SWAG members for their helpful discussion. We specially thank Dr. Nabil Masmoudi for his help in the orthorhombic inversion and the codes.Publisher
Society of Exploration GeophysicistsConference/Event name
Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting 2019, SEG 2019Additional Links
https://library.seg.org/doi/10.1190/segam2019-3214356.1ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1190/segam2019-3214356.1