Shallow subsurface charcterization has witnessed increasing attention in the past few decades. Seismic surface wave analysis has become a standard in geo-technical engineering while applications can also be found in archeology or exploration of acquifers for example. Most current surface-wave inversion methods are aimed at recovering near-surface (shear) velocity profiles from dispersion curves, assuming horizontally layered structure. In some cases, however, one is interested in the strength or shape of local heterogeneities in the shallow subsurface. Here, we present a general inversion algorithm for scattered elastic waves, with the aim to investigate the possibility of using scattered surface waves to obtain spatially and depth resolved images of near-surface heterogeneity. We conclude that we can, in principle, recover location and strength for heterogeneities upto a depth of a Rayleigh wavelength using a few frequencies. We also compare the results to a similar but more efficient inversion scheme based on the Born approximation. We show that for shallow imaging this inversion can recover the location and actual contrast fairly well.
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Inversion of Scattered Surface Waves For Characterizing Shallow Heterogeneities
Christina D. Riyanti;
Christina D. Riyanti
Delft Inst. Appl. Math., Delft U.
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Gérard Herman
Gérard Herman
Earth Res. Lab., MIT, 3 Shell Int. E & P
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Paper presented at the 2005 SEG Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, November 2005.
Paper Number:
SEG-2005-1053
Published:
November 06 2005
Citation
Riyanti, Christina D., Campman, Xander, and Gérard Herman. "Inversion of Scattered Surface Waves For Characterizing Shallow Heterogeneities." Paper presented at the 2005 SEG Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, November 2005.
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