Anisotropic tomography and uncertainty analysis with rock physics constraints: Green Canyon case study

TitleAnisotropic tomography and uncertainty analysis with rock physics constraints: Green Canyon case study
Publication TypeConference Proceedings
Year of Conference2012
AuthorsYang, Y, Osypov, K, Bachrach, R, Woodward, M, Zdraveva, O, Liu, Y, Fournier, A, You, Y
Conference NameSEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2012
PublisherSociety of Exploration Geophysicists
Abstract

Anisotropic model building with tomography is an underdetermined inverse problem. Simultaneously solving for P-wave velocity, epsilon, and delta is not stable when only surface seismic data is used. In this work, a model covariance function was built to constrain post-migration grid tomography using prior information from rock physics and structural dip. Quantitative uncertainty analysis was performed after tomography to measure the non-uniqueness of the problem. We present an example in the Green Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.

URLhttp://library.seg.org/doi/abs/10.1190/segam2012-0916.1
DOI10.1190/segeab.3110.1190/segam2012-0916.1

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