Tempo de transito em meios com isotropia transversal vertical (VTI) : aproximações e inversão dos parametros / Traveltime in vertical transversely isotropic (VTI) media : approximations and parameters inversion

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

03/08/2009

RESUMO

As exploration targets have become deeper, cable lengths have increased accordingly, making the conventional two term hyperbolic traveltime approximation produce increasingly erroneous traveltimes. In other words, for modern long-offset acquisition geometries, a hyperbolic traveltime approximation is no longer sufficient to flatten the CMP gather because of medium inhomogeneity or anisotropy. To overcome this problem, many traveltime formulas were proposed in the literature that provide approximations of different quality. It has been demonstrated that for transversly isotropic media with a vertical symmetry axis (VTI media), just two traveltime parameters are sufficient to perform all time-related processing, being the NMO velocity and one anisotropy parameter. Therefore, we concentrate in this thesis,on simple traveltime approximations that depend on a single anisotropy parameter. We start by giving an overview of a collection of such traveltime approximations found in the literature and compare their quality. Next, we derive a set of new single-parameter traveltime approximations based on the ones found in the literature. The main advantage of our approximations is that some of them are rather simple analytic expressions that make them easy to use, while achieving the same quality as the better of the established formulas. We then use these traveltime aproximations for an inversion of the anisotropy parameters. Using an estimate of the NMO velocity from a hyperbolic velocity analysis, one can estimate the anisotropic parameter from a more general traveltime approximation. We extend this two-step procedure using a more accurate nonhyperbolicity term in the traveltime approximation. The used traveltime approximations allow to predict the bias in the NMO velocity estimate, thus providing a means of correcting both the estimated NMO velocity and the resulting anisotropy parameter value. By means of a numerical example, we demonstrate that the estimation of the traveltime parameters, using this iterative procedure, is improved considerably. Keywords: Traveltime approximations, VTI media, velocity analysis and geophysics

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geofisica anisotropia approximation theory seismic reflection method geophysics anisotropy metodo sismico de reflexão teoria da aproximação

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