R P Srivastava and M K Sen 2009 J. Geophys. Eng. 6 412 doi:10.1088/1742-2132/6/4/009
R P Srivastava1 and M K Sen2
Show affiliationsSeismic 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.
91.90.+p Other topics in solid Earth physics (restricted to new topics in section 91)
Issue 4 (December 2009)
Received 2 May 2009, accepted for publication 21 September 2009
Published 23 October 2009
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