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...

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...