《Effect of inaccurate wavelet phase on prestack waveform inversion》.pdfVIP

APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, Vol.11, No.4 (December 2014), P. 479-488, 8 Figures. DOI: 10.1007/s11770-014-0453-1 Effect of inaccurate wavelet phase on prestack waveform inversion* Luo Chun-Mei1,2♦, Wang Shang-Xu1,2, and Yuan San-Yi1,2 Abstract: Wavelets are critical to inversion methods. Incorrect phase estimation will affect the objective function and cause convergence to local minima, and thus produce biased or incorrect results. Based on two simple models and ignoring all other factors, we studied the variation of the wavelet phase as a function of frequency and its effect on the prestack waveform inversion. Numerical experiments show that an incorrect phase may result in large deviations from the real solution, even if there is a high similarity between the model and real wavelets. The precision of the inversion slightly improves by using the constant-phase rotation; however, the effect of phase inaccuracy is not eliminated, which limits the precision of prestack inversion. Keywords: wavelet, phase, prestack inversion Introduction wavelets are relaxed but the number of inversion parameters increases as well as the difficulty (Wood, 1999; van der Baan and Pham, 2008). Wavelets are critical to inversion methods. In wavelets, it is more difficult to obtain the phase Furthermore, in most inversion methods, it is necessary spectrum than the amplitude spectrum. Todoeschuck to use well-known or partially constrained wavelets and Jensen (1988) proposed to extract