Accuracy Comparison of Elastic Impedance Formula

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Elastic impedance (EI) inversion is one of the prestack seismic inversion methods, which can obtain P-wave and S-wave velocity, density, Poisson ratio, Lame coefficients and other elastic parameters. But there have been many EI formulas nowadays, so which formula should be used in inversion is an urgent problem. This paper divides these formulas into two categories, and use several forward modeling to test the accuracy of these EI formulas. It shows that using the first kind of EI formulas in near offset seismic data can get high precision results.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 466-467)

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400-404

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February 2012

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© 2012 Trans Tech Publications Ltd. All Rights Reserved

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