Method of forming a model representative of the distribution of a physical quantity in an underground zone, free of the effect of correlated noises contained in exploration data
US7092823B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 31, 2003 |
| Grant date | Aug 15, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 30, 2024 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01V2210/32
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The invention is a method of estimating, from data obtained by exploration of a zone of a heterogeneous medium, a model representative of a distribution, in the zone, of at least one physical quantity, the model being free of a presence of correlated noises that may be contained in the data which has application to determining the distribution in an underground zone of acoustic impedance, propagation velocities and permeabilities, etc. The method includes acquiring measurements giving information about physical characteristics of the zone; specifying a noise modelling operator which associates, with a model of each physical quantity, synthetic data that constitute a response of the model; selecting a noise modelling operator which associates a correlated noise with a noise-generating function belonging to a predetermined space of the noise-generating functions; specifying a norm or of a semi-norm in the data space; specifying a semi-norm in the space of the noise-generating functions; defining a cost function; and adjusting the model and of the noise-generating functions.
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