RFWI (Reflection Full Waveform Inversion) is the band-limited transcription of horizon-based traveltime Tomography. In the latter, as in all variants of ray-based reflection Tomography, the problems of the velocity update and of the depth repositioning of the reflectors in the newly updated model are coupled. Ignoring this velocity – depth coupling is an overlooked and underlying cause of slow convergence in RFWI. We analyze the coupling of velocity-update and depth-repositioning in RFWI. We propose to account for it with a data-space pre-conditioner applied on the residuals of RFWI. We show that this preconditioning improves the convergence of RFWI.

Presentation Date: Monday, October 12, 2020

Session Start Time: 1:50 PM

Presentation Time: 1:50 PM

Location: Poster Station 8

Presentation Type: Poster

Keywords:
reservoir characterization, ds 0, seg international exposition, rfwi, preconditioner, upstream oil & gas, iteration, wavepath, tomographic operator, zero-offset wavepath
Subjects:
Reservoir Characterization, Seismic processing and interpretation
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2020. Society of Exploration Geophysicists
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