Surface-wave inversion for a P-velocity profile with a constant depth gradient of the squared slowness

Surface waves are often used to estimate a near-surface shear-velocity profile. The inverse problem is solved for the locally one-dimensional problem of a set of homogeneous horizontal elastic layers. The result is a set of shear velocities, one for each layer. To obtain a P-wave velocity profile, the P-guided waves should be included in the...

Coupling of Elastic Isotropic Medium Parameters in Iterative Linearized Inversion

An elastic isotropic medium is described with three parameters. In seismic migration the perturbation of one elastic parameter affects the images of all the three, which means that these parameters are coupled. For an effective quantitative reconstruction of the true elastic medium reflectivity one can apply an iterative linearized migration...

Methods for source-independent Q estimation from microseismic and crosswell perforation shot data in a layered, isotropic viscoelastic medium

We consider the problem of anelastic full waveform inversion in a multi-layered, isotropic viscoelastic medium from microseismic and cross-hole perforation shots. Usually, the source wavelet is not well known, so we focus on Q estimation techniques that can handle this problem. We revisit the spectral ratio method (SRM) and discuss its domain of...

Decoupling of elastic parameters with iterative linearized inversion

Three model parameters as a function of position describe wave propagation in an isotropic elastic medium. Ideally, imaging of data for a point scatterer that consists of a perturbation in one of the elastic parameters should only provide a reconstruction of that perturbation, without cross-talk into the other parameters. This is not the case...