ExtensionandEvaluationofPseudo-LinearZoeppritz.pptVIP

Testing old and new AVO methods Chuck Ursenbach CREWES Sponsors Meeting November 21, 2003 CREWES 2003 Research Reports Testing pseudo-linear Zoeppritz approximations: P-wave AVO inversion Testing pseudo-linear Zoeppritz approximations: Multicomponent and joint AVO inversion Testing pseudo-linear Zoeppritz approximations: Analytical error expressions Using the exact Zoeppritz equations in pseudo-linear form: Isolating the effects of input errors Using the exact Zoeppritz equations in pseudo-linear form: Inversion for density Outline New Inversion Methods Testing with error-free data Analytical error expressions Testing on input with errors Density inversion Aki-Richards Approximation Pseudo-quadratic expression Accuracy depends on ??/? Impedance IP = ?? IS = ?? P-impedance contrast is predicted accurately Comparison of ?IS/IS predictions Comparison of RPS inversion for ?IS/IS Section Summary Accurate Zoeppritz approximations can be cast into an Aki-Richards form for convenient use in AVO Errors in predicted contrasts are strongly correlated with ??/? Strong cancellation of error for ??/? + ??/? Strong cancellation of error for ??/? + ??/? in Pseudo-quadratic method Pseudo-linear and Pseudo-quadratic methods give superior values of ?IS/IS for RPS and joint inversion Analytical Inversion Observation: Inversion of 3 points of noise-free data, (? = 0?, 15?, 30 ?) gives very similar results to densely sampled data Conjecture: Inversion should be semi-analytically tractable (with aid of symbolic computation software [Maple]) Remark: For inversion of PS data only two points should be required (? = 15?, 30 ?) Method Leave ?/?, ??/?, ??/?, ??/? as variables Assume their value in coefficients is exact Evaluate necessary functions at : ? = 0?, 15?, 30 ? where sin(?) = 0, , ? Carry out inversion using Cramer’s rule Expand contrast estimates up to cubic order in exact contrasts, and up to first order in (?/? - ?) S-Impedance contrast error P-impedanc