A B S T R A C TBorehole seismic addresses the need for high-resolution images and elastic parameters of the subsurface. Full-waveform inversion of vertical seismic profile data is a promising technology with the potential to recover quantitative information about elastic properties of the medium. Full-waveform inversion has the capability to process the entire wavefield and to address the wave propagation effects contained in the borehole data-multi-component measurements; anisotropic effects; compressional and shear waves; and transmitted, converted, and reflected waves and multiples. Full-waveform inversion, therefore, has the potential to provide a more accurate result compared with conventional processing methods.We present a feasibility study with results of the application of high-frequency (up to 60 Hz) anisotropic elastic full-waveform inversion to a walkaway vertical seismic profile data from the Arabian Gulf. Full-waveform inversion has reproduced the majority of the wave events and recovered a geologically plausible layered model with physically meaningful values of the medium.
The vertical seismic profiling, common depth‐point (VSPCDP) transformation is a technique used to image the reflected waves in an offset VSP. This coordinate transformation procedure maps reflection amplitudes from receiver depth and reflection times to lateral offset and reflector depth (Wyatt and Wyatt, 1981). The process involves the application of moveout correction followed by stacking. This moveout correction results in a distortion of the original waveform and a smear of the reflection event that consequently degrades the lateral resolution of the transformation (Owusu, 1991). Therefore, to determine the optimum processing parameters for the transformation we need to understand the effects of the VSP moveout stretch.
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