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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2020
Z Terra Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Nicolay Tanushev, Houston, TX (US);
Iulian F. Musat, Katy, TX (US);
Ioan Sturzu, Houston, TX (US);
Alexander M. Popovici, Katy, TX (US);
Z Terra, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, a velocity model for a seismic exploration subsurface volume is updated by beam tomography. A set of beams is generated from an input seismic data set, and a beam group is assembled for each beam. Each beam group includes the original beam and a set of related beams (if any). If no related beams are found for a given original beam, the original beam is discarded. The beams in a group are then aligned vertically (in depth or time), and a tomography matrix is assembled from the alignment adjustment values for the beams. The tomography matrix is used to perform a tomographic update of the velocity model, and the updated velocity model is used to generate an image of the subsurface volume. The described systems/methods allow efficiently generating accurate images of subsurface volumes, including in areas having complex geologic structures, allowing reduced image inaccuracies/artifacts.