Análise de sensibilidade para estereotomografia em meios elípticos e anelípticos

Abstract

Stereotomography is extended to general anisotropic models and implemented for elliptical and anelliptical anisotropy. The elliptical and anelliptical models present only three parameters. This makes them less sensitive to the ambiguity due to limited coverage of surface seismic experiments than transversaly isotropic or orthorhombic models. The corresponding approximations of the slowness surface restrict the validity of the present approach to qP events and mild anisotropy. Numerical experiments show the potential and the limitations of stereotomography in estimating macro-velocity models suitable for imaging in the presence of anisotropy as well as the importance of transmission events from multiple-offset VSP experiments for the success of the approach.