Análise de resolução em tomografia interpoços em 3-D

Abstract

The joint inversion of multiple crosswell surveys traveltime data allows the reconstruction of high resolution 3-D slowness models suitable for monitoring enhanced oil recovery processes and detailed reservoir characterization. However, the non-uniform volumetric ray coverage unavoidable in crosswell surveys requires additional information to the tomographic system in order to obtain stable solutions. The 3-D tomographic problem is analyzed discretizing the models in 3-D prismatic meshes and using the singular value decomposition. The projection angle of target models in the subspace orthogonal to the effective null space of the tomographic matrix is an useful criteria for designing mesh and data acquisition geometry in order to better conditioning the tomographic reconstruction. The approach can also be used during the linear iterations to redefine the mesh or evaluate the requirement of additional prior information to the tomographic system.