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Simultaneous Estimation of Reflectivity and Geologic Texture: Least-Squares Migration with a Hierarchical Bayesian Model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2013)
In many geophysical inverse problems, smoothness assumptions on the underlying geology are utilized to mitigate the effects of poor resolution and noise in the data and to improve the quality of the inferred model parameters. ...
The failure mode of correlation focusing for model velocity estimation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2013)
We analyze the correlation focusing objective functional introduced by van Leeuwen and Mulder to avoid the cycle-skipping problem in full waveform inversion. While some encouraging numerical experiments were reported in ...
Sensitivity of time lapse seismic data to the compliance of hydraulic fractures
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2013)
We study the sensitivity of seismic waves to changes in the fracture normal and tangential compliances by analyzing the fracture sensitivity wave equation, which is derived by differentiating the elastic wave equation with ...
Converted Phase Elastic Migration Velocity Analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2013)
Multi-component elastic seismic data collected at large offsets have the potential to be used in seismic imaging and velocity analysis. In this study, we present an approach for converted-phase elastic-transmission migration ...
Seismic characterization of reservoirs with variable fracture spacing by double focusing Gaussian beams
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2013)
Fractured reservoirs account for a majority of the oil production worldwide and often have low recovery rate. Fracture characterization is important in building reservoir flow models for enhanced oil recovery. Information ...
Registration-guided least-squares waveform inversion
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2013-01-15)
Full waveform inversion with frequency sweeping cannot start from zero frequency because of the lack of low-frequency data, requiring a good starting model. We study a di fferent iterative scheme where the notion of proximity ...
High-dimensional wave atoms and compression of seismic datasets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2013)
Wave atoms are a low-redundancy alternative to curvelets, suitable for high-dimensional seismic data processing. This abstract extends the wave atom orthobasis construction to 3D, 4D, and 5D Cartesian arrays, and parallelizes ...
Using SVD for improved interferometric Green's function retrieval
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2013)
Seismic interferometry (SI) is a technique used to estimate the Green’s function (GF) between two receiver locations, as if there were a source at one of the receiver locations. However, in many applications, the requirements ...
Analysis of location uncertainty for a microearthquake cluster: A case study
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2013)
In many reservoirs, an increase in permeability and conductivity is achieved by hydraulic fracturing/stimulations which open cracks and fractures that then act as pathways for fluids to navigate in the subsurface. Mapping, ...
Joint microseismic event location with uncertain velocity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2013)
We study the problem of the joint location of seismic events using an array of receivers. We show that locating multiple seismic events simultaneously is advantageous compared to the more traditional approaches of locating ...