Improved resolution in Bayesian lithology/fluid inversion from prestack seismic data and well observations: Part 1 - Methodology

Geophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Ulvmoen, Marit ^a   Omre, Henning ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LITHOLOGY; MARKOV PROCESSES; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COMPLETE SOLUTIONS; INVERSION RESULTS; MARKOV CHAIN MODELS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL; PRE-STACK SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC AMPLITUDES; SIMULATION ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL COUPLINGS;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

ALGORITHM; AVO METHOD; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INVERSION; DECONVOLUTION; LITHOLOGY; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC DATA; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILE; AMPLITUDE; INVERSION TECTONICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865693224     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3294570     Document Type: Article

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