Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998geoji.135..999i&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Journal International, Volume 135, Issue 3, pp. 999-1010.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Random Media, Seismic Reflection, Traveltime Fluctuations, Wave Propagation
Scientific paper
Velocity estimation remains one of the main problems when imaging the subsurface with seismic reflection data. Traveltime inversion enables us to obtain large-scale structures of the velocity field and the position of seismic reflectors. However, as the media currently under study are becoming more and more complex, we need to know the finer-scale structures. The problem is that below a certain range of velocity heterogeneities, deterministic methods become difficult to use, so we turn to a probabilistic approach. With this in view, we characterize the velocity field as a random field defined by its first and second statistical moments. Usually, a seismic random medium is defined as a homogeneous velocity background perturbed by a small random field that is assumed to be stationary. Thus, we make a link between such a random velocity medium (together with a simple reflector) and seismic reflection traveltimes. Assuming that the traveltimes are ergodic, we use 2-D seismic reflection geometry to study the decrease in the statistical traveltime fluctuations as a function of the offset (the source-receiver distance). Our formulae are based on the Rytov approximation and the parabolic approximation for acoustic waves. The validity and the limits are established for both of these approximations in statistically anisotropic random media. Finally, theoretical inversion procedures are developed for the horizontal correlation structure of the velocity heterogeneities for the simplest case of a horizontal reflector. Synthetic seismograms are then computed (on particular realizations of random media) by simulating scalar wave propagation via finite difference algorithms. There is good agreement between the theoretical and experimental results.
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