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Towards 3D 9C Elastic Full Waveform Inversion of Shallow Seismic Wavefields - Case Study Ettlingen Line
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 81st EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2019, Jun 2019, Volume 2019, p.1 - 5
Abstract
Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a high-resolution seismic imaging tool, based on an iterative data fitting procedure. In this research, we focus on a near-surface application using three-component sources and three-component receivers (9C). The target is the Ettlingen Line, a defensive trench line located at Rheinstetten, Germany. In this work, we describe the first application of 3D elastic FWI method to a dense 3D dataset equipped with 9C. In practice, due to the limited number of equipment, the acquisition has been split into six parts (each part has the all source locations but only part of receiver locations). This separation leads to an inconsistent dataset concerning both amplitudes and phases. Therefore, a first step has led to the application of matching filter to homogenize the dataset. Several FWI strategies such as Vp − Vs parameter binding, gradient Bessel smoothing, and multi-scale approach have been considered during the inversion process to ensure a good convergence. Starting from a homogeneous model, we can achieve significant improvement in data-fit as well as a realistic reconstructed model. The location and dimension of the trench match with the previous experiments based on the inversion of surface wave dispersion curves with an additional increase in resolution.