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Post-stack Seismic Inversion

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Seismic Inversion Methods: A Practical Approach

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Post-stack seismic inversion utilizes post-stack seismic data along with well log data to estimate acoustic impedance. Post-stack seismic inversion is very fast compared to other pre-stack seismic inversion methods and provides a high-resolution subsurface image. This chapter discusses several types of post-stack seismic inversion methods namely model-based inversion, colored inversion, sparse spike inversion, and band-limited inversion. The chapter also includes the synthetic as well as real data examples of above seismic inversion methods.

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  1. Department of Geophysics, Institute of Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

    S. P. Maurya & N. P. Singh

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    K. H. Singh

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Maurya, S.P., Singh, N.P., Singh, K.H. (2020). Post-stack Seismic Inversion. In: Seismic Inversion Methods: A Practical Approach. Springer Geophysics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45662-7_3

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