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


Title

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

Publication Type
Conference Proceedings
Year of Conference
2012
Conference Name
SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2012
Publisher
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Publication Language
eng
Citation Key
2926
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.