On the footprint of anisotropy on isotropic full waveform inversion: The Valhall case study

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1495-1515

  Prieux, Vincent ^a   Brossier, Romain ^b   Gholami, Yaser ^a   Operto, Stéphane ^a   Virieux, Jean ^b   Barkved, O I ^c   Kommedal, J H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE GRENOBLE   (France)

^c BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Controlled source seismology; Inverse theory; Seismic anisotropy; Seismic tomography; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DATA; ANISOTROPIC MODELS; ANISOTROPIC REFLECTION; APERTURE ANGLE; CONTROLLED SOURCE; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; GAS LAYERS; GAS VELOCITY; HIGH VELOCITY; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; HYDROPHONE DATA; ILL-POSEDNESS; INVERSE THEORY; ISOTROPIC APPROXIMATIONS; LARGE APERTURE; MOVEOUT; MULTISCALES; NORTH SEA; PARAMETERIZED; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC MODELLING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; THOMSEN PARAMETER; TRAVEL TIME; TRAVEL TIME TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY ESTIMATION; VELOCITY MODEL; VELOCITY RECONSTRUCTION; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

PARAMETERIZATION; REFLECTION; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WELL LOGGING;

ANISOTROPY;

INVERSE PROBLEM; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; VALHALL FIELD;

EID: 81555202458     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05209.x     Document Type: Article

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