TY - JOUR
T1 - 3D elastic full waveform inversion using P-wave excitation amplitude: Application to OBC field data
AU - Oh, Juwon
AU - Kalita, Mahesh
AU - Alkhalifah, Tariq Ali
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-04-23
Acknowledgements: Research reported in this publication was supported by competitive research funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. The authors would like to thank Statoil ASA and the Volve license partners ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Norway AS and Bayerngas Norge AS for the release of the Volve data. We would like to thank Marianne Houbiers from Statoil for providing some helpful suggestions and corrections. For computer time, this research used the resources of the Supercomputing Laboratory in KAUST. We thank the members of Seismic Wave Analysis Group (SWAG) in KAUST
PY - 2018/1/29
Y1 - 2018/1/29
N2 - We propose an efficient elastic full waveform inversion (FWI) based on the P-wave excitation amplitude (maximum energy arrival) approximation in the source wavefields. Because, based on the P-wave excitation approximation (ExA), the gradient direction is approximated by the cross-correlation of source and receiver wavefields at only excitation time, it estimates the gradient direction faster than its conventional counterpart. In addition to this computational speedup, the P-wave excitation approximation automatically ignores SP and SS correlations in the approximated gradient direction. In elastic FWI for ocean bottom cable (OBC) data, the descent direction for the S-wave velocity is often degraded by undesired long-wavelength features from the SS correlation. For this reason, the P-wave excitation approach increases the convergence rate of multi-parameter FWI compared to the conventional approach. The modified 2D Marmousi model with OBC acquisition is used to verify the differences between the conventional method and ExA. Finally, the feasibility of the proposed method is demonstrated on a real OBC data from North Sea.
AB - We propose an efficient elastic full waveform inversion (FWI) based on the P-wave excitation amplitude (maximum energy arrival) approximation in the source wavefields. Because, based on the P-wave excitation approximation (ExA), the gradient direction is approximated by the cross-correlation of source and receiver wavefields at only excitation time, it estimates the gradient direction faster than its conventional counterpart. In addition to this computational speedup, the P-wave excitation approximation automatically ignores SP and SS correlations in the approximated gradient direction. In elastic FWI for ocean bottom cable (OBC) data, the descent direction for the S-wave velocity is often degraded by undesired long-wavelength features from the SS correlation. For this reason, the P-wave excitation approach increases the convergence rate of multi-parameter FWI compared to the conventional approach. The modified 2D Marmousi model with OBC acquisition is used to verify the differences between the conventional method and ExA. Finally, the feasibility of the proposed method is demonstrated on a real OBC data from North Sea.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/626364
UR - https://library.seg.org/doi/10.1190/geo2017-0236.1
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85041282077&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1190/GEO2017-0236.1
DO - 10.1190/GEO2017-0236.1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041282077
VL - 83
SP - R129-R140
JO - GEOPHYSICS
JF - GEOPHYSICS
SN - 0016-8033
IS - 2
ER -