Análise de um esquema de inversão para estimativa de anisotropia local a partir de dados de VSP

Abstract

Inversion scheme for the determination of arbitrary in a vicinity of a receiver situated inside a borehole from the data obtained during a multi-offset multi-azimuthal VSP experiment is studied. The data consist of vertical components of the slowness vector and all components of the polarization vector of P waves direct and reected. The inversion is made from a first order approximation around an reference arbitrary isotropic medium, that does the relation between the data of slowness and polarization of P waves parameters and the weakly anisotropic medium (WA parameters). This inversion scheme applies to arbitrary anisotropy medium, provided that the anisotropy is weak and independent of downhole type (vertical, horizontal or inclined). The results show that reversing is sensitive to the number and orientation of the proles of sources that are distributed on the surface. An analysis of the design of an experiment and discussion about the choice of parameters of the reference isotropic medium are presented. Within the realistic assumptions about the level of noise is possible to estimate the phase velocity for a limited angular aperture around the well.