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Acoustic full-waveform tomography of realistic 2D synthetic seismic elastic data


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1 CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
2 Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun 248 001, India
 

Advanced computing facilities accelerate the research in highly computational seismic imaging techniques (full-waveform tomography (FWT) and migration) that play a vital role in hydrocarbon exploration. We have carried out a synthetic study to understand the practical intricacies of FWT for its successful application to field seismic data by choosing different strategies. The results show that the high-resolution features, which are missing from the conventional traveltime tomography, are well imaged by the FWT. Further, frequency overlapping is more suitable than discrete frequencies without overlapping for FWT in obtaining reasonable results from multiscale imaging.

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Elastic And Acoustic Data, Frequency Domain, Hydrocarbon Exploration, Ocean-bottom Seismometer, Waveform Tomography
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Authors

Damodara Nara
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
Kalachand Sain
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun 248 001, India

Abstract


Advanced computing facilities accelerate the research in highly computational seismic imaging techniques (full-waveform tomography (FWT) and migration) that play a vital role in hydrocarbon exploration. We have carried out a synthetic study to understand the practical intricacies of FWT for its successful application to field seismic data by choosing different strategies. The results show that the high-resolution features, which are missing from the conventional traveltime tomography, are well imaged by the FWT. Further, frequency overlapping is more suitable than discrete frequencies without overlapping for FWT in obtaining reasonable results from multiscale imaging.

Keywords


Elastic And Acoustic Data, Frequency Domain, Hydrocarbon Exploration, Ocean-bottom Seismometer, Waveform Tomography

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv122%2Fi12%2F1407-1414