Three dimensional localised slant stacks and their application to the analysis of synthetic reverse vertical seismic profiles

[摘要] Three-dimensional slant stacks simulate the response of an elastic medium for both an incident (ray parameter q) and a scattered (ray parameter p) plane wave and are implemented by following a slant stack of common shot gathers by a second slant stack of common ray parameter gathers. Three-dimensional localised slant stacks are developed, and applied to analyse reverse vertical seismic profiles. The application of slant stacks to borehole data differs from the surface seismic case in that the velocities measured from plane wave decomposition are horizontal and vertical phase velocities. Velocity and dip estimates for a model with iso-velocity layers and plane interfaces with any dip are obtained using the slant stacks without explicitly utilizing traveltimes. The estimation scheme is based on a layer stripping approach. The direct arrivals are used to determine the velocity and the reflections are used to determine the dip of the reflector.

[发布机构] Rice University