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Acoustic full waveform inversion of synthetic land and marine data in the Laplace domain
Author(s) -
Ha Wansoo,
Pyun Sukjoon,
Yoo Jewoo,
Shin Changsoo
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
geophysical prospecting
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.735
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1365-2478
pISSN - 0016-8025
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2010.00884.x
Subject(s) - inversion (geology) , acoustics , waveform , geology , frequency domain , rayleigh wave , time domain , laplace transform , amplitude , algorithm , mathematical analysis , computer science , seismology , mathematics , surface wave , physics , optics , telecommunications , radar , computer vision , tectonics
Elastic waves, such as Rayleigh and mode‐converted waves, together with amplitude versus offset variations, serve as noise in full waveform inversion using the acoustic approximation. Heavy preprocessing must be applied to remove elastic effects to invert land or marine data using the acoustic inversion method in the time or frequency domains. Full waveform inversion using the elastic wave equation should be one alternative; however, multi‐parameter inversion is expensive and sensitive to the starting velocity model. We implement full acoustic waveform inversion of synthetic land and marine data in the Laplace domain with minimum preprocessing (i.e., muting) to remove elastic effects. The damping in the Laplace transform can be thought of as an automatic time windowing. Numerical examples show that Laplace‐domain acoustic inversion can yield correct smooth velocity models even with the noise originating from elastic waves. This offers the opportunity to develop an accurate smooth starting model for subsequent inversion in the frequency domain.