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Fractal-based stochastic inversion of poststack seismic data using very fast simulated annealing

R P Srivastava1 and M K Sen2

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Seismic data do not contain some low- and high-frequency information because of the band-limited nature of the source wavelet. A deterministic inversion of such band-limited seismic data produces smooth models which are devoid of high-frequency variations observed in well logs. Stochastic inversion methods often based on random Gaussian priors can have a limitation of producing high frequencies in the desired model particularly the frequency band not constrained by the input seismic data. In this paper, we propose a new stochastic poststack inversion algorithm where fractal models constructed from statistical properties of well logs are used to generate a priori models. This provides a high-resolution model without injecting spurious high-frequency estimates in model space. Stacked seismic data are used in the inversion in which a suitable objective function is minimized using a nonlinear optimization method called 'very fast simulated annealing'. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method for the estimation of acoustic impedance with the application to a field dataset.


PACS

91.90.+p Other topics in solid Earth physics (restricted to new topics in section 91)

93.85.Rt Seismic methods

02.50.Fz Stochastic analysis

02.60.Pn Numerical optimization

91.30.Ab Theory and modeling, computational seismology

Subjects

Computational physics

Instrumentation and measurement

Environmental and Earth science

Dates

Issue 4 (December 2009)

Received 2 May 2009, accepted for publication 21 September 2009

Published 23 October 2009



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