Feasibility study for an anisotropic full waveform inversion of cross-well seismic data

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 56, Issue 6 SPEC. ISS., 2008, Pages 897-906

  Barnes, Christophe ^a   Charara, Marwan ^b   Tsuchiya, Terumitsu ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^b SCHLUMBERGER MOSCOW RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c Arabian Oil Company Ltd   (Japan)

^d Dia Consultants Co

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ANISOTROPY; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

2-D MODELING; ADJOINT; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANISOTROPIC EFFECTS; ANISOTROPIC PARAMETERS; CROSS-WELL; DATA SETS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; GAUSSIAN; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; NOISY DATA; OBSERVED DATA; OPTIMIZATION INVERSION; P-WAVE VELOCITIES; PROPAGATION EQUATIONS; S-WAVE VELOCITIES; SECOND ORDERS; SEISMIC DATA; THIN LAYERING; TIME DOMAIN OCT; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC MEDIA; VERTICAL SYMMETRY AXIS; WAVE INVERSION METHOD;

PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS;

DATA INVERSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEM; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 53549088057     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2008.00702.x     Document Type: Article

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