AVO correction for scalar waves in the case of a thinly layered reflector overburden
- Karlsruhe Univ. (Germany). Geophysical Inst.
The reflection response of a seismic target is significantly affected by a thinly layered overburden, which creates velocity anisotropy and a transmission loss by scattering attenuation. These effects must be taken into account when imaging a target reflector and when inverting reflection coefficients. Describing scalar wave (i.e., acoustic wave or SH-wave) propagation through a stack of thin layers by equivalent-medium theory provides a simple generalized O`Doherty-Anstey formula. This formulation is defined by a few statistical parameters that depend on the 1-D random fluctuations of the reflector overburden. The formula has been combined with well-known target-oriented and amplitude-preserving migration/inversion algorithms and amplitude variation with offset (AVO) analysis procedures. The application of these combined procedures is demonstrated for SH-waves in an elastic thinly-layered medium. These techniques offer a suitable tool to compensate for the thin-layer influence on traveltimes and amplitudes of seismic reflection data. The thin-layer sensitive AVO parameters (zero-offset amplitude and AVO gradient) of a target reflector can thus be better recovered.
- OSTI ID:
- 218402
- Journal Information:
- Geophysics, Journal Name: Geophysics Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 61; ISSN GPYSA7; ISSN 0016-8033
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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