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oa Deriving P-wave Near-surface Models from Exploration Data
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 76th EAGE Conference and Exhibition - Workshops, Jun 2014, cp-401-00046
- ISBN: 978-90-73834-90-3
Abstract
Adequate handling of the near surface is crucial for proper imaging of land data, especially for complex overburdens. Recently we introduced modal elastic inversion (Ernst 2013): approximate FWI which inverts P-guided waves to near-surface P-velocity models. We will present two case studies of modal elastic inversion of P-guided waves to obtain near-surface velocity models. The results show that this inversion approach can give realistic results not only for modern high-end densely sampled surveys, but also for sparse legacy dynamite surveys.