S11A:
Imaging the Earth I: Theory and Methods at Reservoir and Local Scales I Posters

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Session ID#: 13058

Session Description:
This session focuses on new mathematical, computational, and theoretical breakthroughs in seismic imaging and waveform inversion to address challenges in inversion and imaging. We welcome topics along but not limited to the following lines: initial model building, nonlinear and other novel inversion strategy, inversion of sources, limited data acquisition, multiples and multiple scattering, role of low frequencies and wavenumber, and quantifying uncertainties and artifacts in the inversion. Modeled/synthetic data, blind tests, both successful and unsuccessful real-data case studies, in exploration and reservoir geophysics and other related areas are encouraged to submit. This session is complementary to session Imaging the Earth II: From Data to Processes on regional to global scales. Together, they are intended to promote communication between exploration and global seismology.
Primary Convener:  Yingcai Zheng, University of Houston, Earth and Atmospherical Sciences Dept, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Yingcai Zheng, University of Houston, Earth and Atmospherical Sciences Dept, Houston, TX, United States, Tariq Alkhalifah, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia and Min Chen, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
Chairs:  Tariq Alkhalifah, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Min Chen, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States and Yingcai Zheng, University of Houston, Earth and Atmospherical Sciences Dept, Houston, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Min Chen, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
Index Terms:

7215 Earthquake source observations [SEISMOLOGY]
7260 Theory [SEISMOLOGY]
7270 Tomography [SEISMOLOGY]
7290 Computational seismology [SEISMOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Comparison of Amplitudes and Frequencies of Explosive vs. Hammer Seismic Sources for a 1-km Seismic Line in West Texas (163640)
Galen Kaip1, Steven H Harder2, Marianne S. Karplus3 and Alan Vennemann3, (1)University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Resource Sciences, El Paso, United States, (2)University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, (3)University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States
The complexity of seismic wave propagation direction observed from air-gun source and dense array (146498)
Qiushi Zhai, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Huajian Yao, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Laboratory of Seismology and Physics of Earth's Interior, Hefei, China, Baoshan Wang, IGP Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, Weitao Wang, Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China and Zhiming Bai, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Distribution of free gas and 3D mirror image structures beneath Sevastopol mud volcano, Black sea, from 3D high resolution wide-angle seismic data (125820)
Cord A Papenberg, Anne Krabbenhoeft, Dirk Klaeschen and Joerg Bialas, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
The exploration technology and application of sea surface wave (146711)
Yuan Wang, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Preliminary results of pre-stack reverse time migration of teleseismic receiver functions (154155)
Xiaohuan Jiang1, Lupei Zhu2, Rong Huang1 and Song Luo1, (1)China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China, (2)Saint Louis University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Geospatial Science, Saint Louis, United States
Seismic characterization of Aquifer structure in Kharga basin- Egypt (199070)
Afshin Aghayan1, Priyank Jaiswal2, Estella A Atekwana1, Mohamed Abdelsalam3, Khemraj Shukla1 and Magdy Attia4, (1)Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States, (2)Oklahoma State University, Boone Pickens School of Geology, Stillwater, OK, United States, (3)Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Boone Pickens School of Geology, Stillwater, OK, United States, (4)National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Helwan, Egypt
USING AMPLITUDE OF PAIR CORRELATION FUNCTION TO IDENTIFY THE PRODUCTIVE LAYER FROM WELL-LOG AND SEISMIC DATA (136364)
Ramya Ravindranathan, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, Anne Cecile Lesage, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States and Evgeny Chesnokov, University of Houston, Houston, United States
Uncertainty quantification of seabed parameters for large data volumes along survey tracks with a tempered particle filter (139742)
Jan Dettmer1, Jorge E Quijano2, Stan E Dosso2, Charles William Holland3 and Eric Mandolesi4, (1)University of Calgary, Department of Geoscience, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, (4)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Direct inversion of surface wave dispersion for three-dimensional crustal azimuthal anisotropy based on frequency-dependent ray tracing (143495)
Chuanming Liu1,2, Huajian Yao1,2, Hsin-Ying Yang3,4 and Hongjian Fang2,5, (1)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Laboratory of Seismology and Physics of Earth's Interior, Hefei, China, (2)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, (3)School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (4)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (5)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Propagation of Gaussian Wave Packets in heterogeneous media and the application to fracture characterization (144922)
Yinshuai Ding1, Yingcai Zheng2, Hua-Wei Zhou2, Michael Howell2 and Hao Hu2, (1)University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Houston, Earth and Atmospherical Sciences Dept, Houston, TX, United States
Near-surface adjoint tomography based on the discontinuous Galerkin method  (154147)
Wei Wang1,2, Chen Po1,2 and Steve Holbrook2,3, (1)University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, (3)Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States
Anisotropic Fracture Zone Imaging with Wavefield-Separated Elastic Reverse-Time Migration (154199)
Kai Gao, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Lianjie Huang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Geophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Applicability and Bias of VP/VS Estimates by P and S Differential Arrival Times of Spatially Clustered Earthquakes - why the method of Lin and Shearer (2007) will yield biased results in nearly all realistic configurations (154732)
Frederik J Tilmann, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Geological Sciences, Berlin, Germany; GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, Mauro Palo, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany and Bernd Schurr, Deutsches GeoForschungsZemtrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
Localized time-lapse elastic waveform inversion using wave-equation redatuming method: 2D parametric studies (160241)
Dr. Shihao Yuan1, Nobuaki Fuji2, Satish Chandra Singh1 and Dmitry Borisov3, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (2)Université de Paris, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, Paris, France, (3)University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States
Using seismic coda waves to resolve intrinsic and scattering attenuation (161319)
Wei Wang, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Peter M Shearer, University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
A Modified Normalization Technique for Frequency-Domain Full Waveform Inversion (169683)
Jongha Hwang1, Gangwon Jeong2, Dong-Joo Min1, Shinwoong KIM1 and Jun-yeong Heo1, (1)Seoul National University, Energy Systems Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
Elastic and acoustic migration comparison on elastic Marmousi-II model using generalized-screen method (170151)
Byoung Yeop KIM1, Soon Jee Seol2, Ho-Young Lee3, Nam-Hyung Koo4, Woohyun Son1 and Joongmoo Byun5, (1)Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea, (2)Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, (3)KIGAM Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea, (4)University of Science & Technology (UST), Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South), (5)Hanyang University, RISE.ML, Seoul, South Korea
Imaging the Hanging-Wall of the Alpine Fault Using Ambient Noise Techniques Applied to Active-Source Data: Whataroa Valley, Westland, New Zealand (170230)
Andy Thomas McNab1, John Townend1, Martha K Savage2, Calum John Chamberlain1, Vera Lay3, Stefan Buske4, Jennifer Dawn Eccles5, Richard L Kellett6 and Fan-Chi Lin7, (1)Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, (2)Victoria University of Wellington, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand, (3)Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Freiberg, Germany, (4)TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany, (5)University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, (6)GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (7)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Seismic interferometry of the Bighorn Mountains: Using virtual source gathers to increase fold in sparse-source, dense-receiver data (184506)
Steven Michael Plescia, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Anne Sheehan, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, United States, Seth S Haines, U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Science Center, Denver, United States, Scott W Cook, Tricon Geophysics, Denver, CO, United States and Lindsay Lowe Worthington, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, United States
Preconditioning Strategies in Elastic Full Waveform Inversion. (189719)
Gian Matharu, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Mauricio D Sacchi, University of Alberta, Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada

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