Abstract
The 2D wave-equation dispersion inversion (WD) methodology is extended to the inversion of three-dimensional data for a 3D shear-wave velocity model. The objective function of 3D WD is the sum of the squared wavenumber differences along each azimuth angle between the predicted and observed 3D dispersion curves. The 3D dispersion curves are obtained by wavenumber-frequency analysis of the fundamental Rayleigh waves in each 3D shot gather. The S-wave velocity update is computed by a weighted zero-lag crosscorrelation between the source wavefield and the back-projected receiver-side wavefield for each azimuth angle. The synthetic and field data examples demonstrate that the 3D WD method can accurately estimate the 3D S-wave velocity model in laterally heterogeneous media.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2018 |
Publisher | Society of Exploration Geophysicists |
Pages | 4733-4737 |
Number of pages | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 27 2018 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: The research reported in this publication was supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. We are grateful to the sponsors of the Center for Subsurface Imaging and Modeling Consortium for their financial support. For computer time, this research used the resources of the Supercomputing Laboratory at KAUST and the IT Research Computing Group. We thank them for providing the computational resources required for carrying out this work.