Wave-equation Q tomography

Author:

Dutta Gaurav1,Schuster Gerard T.1

Affiliation:

1. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia..

Abstract

Strong subsurface attenuation leads to distortion of amplitudes and phases of seismic waves propagating inside the earth. The amplitude and the dispersion losses from attenuation are often compensated for during prestack depth migration. However, most attenuation compensation or [Formula: see text]-compensation migration algorithms require an estimate of the background [Formula: see text] model. We have developed a wave-equation gradient optimization method that inverts for the subsurface [Formula: see text] distribution by minimizing a skeletonized misfit function [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the sum of the squared differences between the observed and the predicted peak/centroid-frequency shifts of the early arrivals. The gradient is computed by migrating the observed traces weighted by the frequency shift residuals. The background [Formula: see text] model is perturbed until the predicted and the observed traces have the same peak frequencies or the same centroid frequencies. Numerical tests determined that an improved accuracy of the [Formula: see text] model by wave-equation [Formula: see text] tomography leads to a noticeable improvement in migration image quality.

Publisher

Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Subject

Geochemistry and Petrology,Geophysics

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