Elastic wave equation traveltime and waveform inversion of crosshole seismic data: Theory
- Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
- Fijitsu America, Inc., San Jose, CA (United States)
An acoustic Wave Equation Travel Time and Wave Form (acoustic WTW) Inversion method was presented by Zhou et al. (1993) to invert the P-wave velocity distribution from crosshole seismic data. The acoustic WTW tomograms showed about 6 times greater spatial resolution than the corresponding travel time tomograms. In this paper the authors present the elastic wave equation travel time and waveform (elastic WTW) inversion method which inverts for both the P-wave and S-wave velocity distributions from crosshole seismic data. Comparison of the elastic WTW tomograms with the acoustic WTW tomogram shows that both methods can invert for a high resolution P-wave velocity structure when the S-wave energy is very weak in the recorded seismograms. Elastic WTW inversion is superior to acoustic WTW inversion when there are significant S-waves in the recorded seismograms. The disadvantage of elastic WTW inversion is that it can be more than 5 times computationally expensive than the acoustic waveform inversion.
- OSTI ID:
- 80276
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941015--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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