Bayesian inversion for facies detection: An extensible level set framework

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Cardiff, M ^a   Kitanidis, P K ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN INVERSION; BOUNDARY DELINEATION; DATA SOURCE; DATA TYPE; GEOLOGIC FACIES; GEOLOGIC UNITS; GEOSTATISTICAL MODELS; GRADIENT BASED; HYDROLOGIC PARAMETERS; INDIRECT MEASUREMENTS; INVERSE MODELING; JOINT INVERSION; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET FRAMEWORK; LEVEL SET METHOD; MULTIPLE LEVELS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PETROPHYSICAL; PRIOR INFORMATION; PUMP TESTS; VARIOGRAMS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DROP BREAKUP; GEOPHYSICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SET THEORY;

LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FACIES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 72149130285     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007675     Document Type: Article

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