Robust tomography using wide-band Fresnel zone wavepath

Bagus E. B. Nurhandoko

Department of Earth and Resources Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan.
E-mail: bagus@tansa.kumst.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Abstract

In the present paper, we introduce a new algorithm for Fresnel zone wavepath inversion that considers wide band wave spectra. So, the inversion is done by using wide-band spectra rather than narrow spectra (monochromatic), because the natural wave spectra are polychromatic rather than purely monochromatic. And mathematically, the monochromatic wavelet also means that the wavelet is infinite in time domain. Practically, however, real seismic field data are finite in time domain. Therefore, the frequency spectrum would be better represented as a distribution of polychromatic spectra rather than mono spike spectrum.

The frequency parameter used in this inversion method sweeps from low to high frequencies. By this sweeping frequency procedure, we get more accurate estimation and wide angle in reconstruction.

By the model studies, this inversion method is robust in both dense and sparse data, even though the initial model is quite far from the true model. This method also provides better in reconstruction than raypath tomography. Nevertheless, this method still provides faster computation than the raypath tomography.


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Last modified: Mon Nov 29 15:16:39 1999