Inversão da forma de onda orientada ao alvo

Abstract

We propose a new target-oriented waveform inversion to estimate the physical parameters from a specific target in the subsurface from observed data from deviated-VSP acquisition or surface seismic data. Furthermore, we investigate a strategy to estimate the impulse responses from a local target in the subsurface from deviated-VSP acquisition or surface seismic data as an iterative sparse inversion approach, where the main feature of this strategy is that all multiple scattering in the data is used to enhance the illumination at target level. In these approaches we fit the upgoing wavefields observed at a specific level near the local target with the upgoing wavefields estimated at same depth level through convolution-type representation for the Green’s function. The main feature of the target-oriented waveform inversion is that we just need to know the up- and downgoing wavefields at the depth level above the target area to estimate the physical parameters for the area of interest. We show through numerical tests that the iterative sparse inversion approach does not require dense sources sampling to estimate the impulse responses from a target below a complex overburden, because of all the extra illumination via multiples. The physical parameters above the target area is not necessary to know if we use the data from deviated-VSP geometry of acquisition, but for surface seismic data we need to know a smooth physical parameter above the target area to estimate the up- and downgoing wavefields at depth level nearby the local target. For surface seismic data we used Joint Migration Inversion to estimate the up- and downgoing wavefields at depth level near the target area.