3-D tomographic imaging of near‐surface seismic velocity and attenuation

Abstract

As a result of the similarity between velocity and attenuation imaging, we have implemented both using the same 3-D tomography software, with simple variable changes. The resulting sets of linear equations are solved by the Simultaneous Iterative Reconstruction Technique (SIRT). The algorithm is applied to 3-D estimation of near‐surface velocity and attenuation distributions from 3-D surface‐survey field data from the Ouachita frontal thrust zone in southeastern Oklahoma; the images obtained correlate well with the known surface geology. Resolution analysis by computation of point spread functions indicates highest resolution in the direction parallel to the densest distribution of survey points (the receiver lines).