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Summary

Seismic waves are attenuated and dispersed as they travel through the subsurface given that part of the energy is lost into heat. These effects are visible on the recorded seismic data but are commonly ignored when performing acoustic full-waveform inversion (FWI). As a result, the recovered P-wave velocity models are not as well resolved and are quantitatively less accurate. Here we analyse the impact of viscous effects in acoustic FWI of visco-acoustic synthetic data and we propose and apply a method to mitigate attenuation effects while still performing acoustic FWI, which is based on matching filters. We show that only a smooth model of attenuation is required to successfully improve the recovered P-wave velocity model, even when applied to a noisy synthetic dataset.

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2017-06-12
2024-03-29
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