Assisting geological interpretation using seismic simulation

摘要

Seismic forward modelling is an important tool for seismic structural interpretation in complicated areas. In a typical workflow, a subsurface velocity model is created after a number of iterations of velocity model building followed by pre-stack depth migration. After this stage, interpretation is performed. Very often, data ambiguities remain where it is not clear whether certain events represent primary reflectors or rather coherent noise such as multiples or converted waves.