Decomposition of structural amplitude effect and AVO attributes: Application to a gas-water contact

The structural amplitude effect, associated with focusing and defocusing due to the reflector curvature, importantly contributes to reflection seismic amplitudes. This paper develops a conciliatory approach for estimating the structural amplitude effect and the attributes of amplitude variation vers...

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Main Authors: Wang, Y, Worthington, M, Pratt, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2002
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description The structural amplitude effect, associated with focusing and defocusing due to the reflector curvature, importantly contributes to reflection seismic amplitudes. This paper develops a conciliatory approach for estimating the structural amplitude effect and the attributes of amplitude variation versus offset (AVO). The AVO attributes are extracted from raw amplitudes, in which the structural effect is taken into account explicitly based on a structural model reconstructed from travel-time inversion. One of the goals is to conduct the AVO analysis not just locally (per CDP) but also horizontally to see the global variation along the reflection. The lateral variations of AVO attributes are decomposed by the Chebyshev expansion. The method is demonstrated with an example of weak shallow gas-water contact appearing on a 2-D seismic profile of a site survey in the North Sea.
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spelling oxford-uuid:6afb8818-c9d0-458a-9fe3-2e9cae4268762022-03-26T19:00:50ZDecomposition of structural amplitude effect and AVO attributes: Application to a gas-water contactJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:6afb8818-c9d0-458a-9fe3-2e9cae426876EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2002Wang, YWorthington, MPratt, RThe structural amplitude effect, associated with focusing and defocusing due to the reflector curvature, importantly contributes to reflection seismic amplitudes. This paper develops a conciliatory approach for estimating the structural amplitude effect and the attributes of amplitude variation versus offset (AVO). The AVO attributes are extracted from raw amplitudes, in which the structural effect is taken into account explicitly based on a structural model reconstructed from travel-time inversion. One of the goals is to conduct the AVO analysis not just locally (per CDP) but also horizontally to see the global variation along the reflection. The lateral variations of AVO attributes are decomposed by the Chebyshev expansion. The method is demonstrated with an example of weak shallow gas-water contact appearing on a 2-D seismic profile of a site survey in the North Sea.
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title Decomposition of structural amplitude effect and AVO attributes: Application to a gas-water contact
title_full Decomposition of structural amplitude effect and AVO attributes: Application to a gas-water contact
title_fullStr Decomposition of structural amplitude effect and AVO attributes: Application to a gas-water contact
title_full_unstemmed Decomposition of structural amplitude effect and AVO attributes: Application to a gas-water contact
title_short Decomposition of structural amplitude effect and AVO attributes: Application to a gas-water contact
title_sort decomposition of structural amplitude effect and avo attributes application to a gas water contact
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