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Prismatic wave is that it has three reflection paths and two reflection points, one of which is located at the reflection interface and the other is located at the steep dip angle reflection layer, so that contains a lot of the high and steep reflection interface information that primary cannot reach. Prismatic wave field information can be separated by applying Born approximation to traditional reverse time migration profile, and then the prismatic wave is used to update velocity to improve the inversion efficiency for the salt dame flanks and some other high and steep structure. Under the guidance of this idea, a prismatic waveform inversion method is proposed (abbreviated as PWI). PWI has a significant drawback that an iteration time of PWI is more than twice as that of FWI, meanwhile, the full wave field information cannot all be used, for this problem, we propose a joint inversion method to combine prismatic waveform inversion with full waveform inversion. In this method, FWI and PWI are applied alternately to invert the velocity. Model tests suggest that the joint inversion method is less dependence on the high and steep structure information in the initial model and improve high inversion efficiency and accuracy for the model with steep dip angle structure.
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This study work wad financially supported by the National 973 Project (No. 2014CB239006 and 2011CB202402), the Natural Science Foundation of China (No.41104069 and 41274124), and the Graduate Student Innovation Project Funding of China University of Petroleum (No. YCXJ2016001).
Qu Ying-Ming, China university of petroleum (Huadong), Ph.D candidate. Student at the Department of Geophysics, China University of Petroleum (Huadong) from year 2008. His research interests are forward modeling, migration, full waveform inversion method.
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Qu, YM., Li, ZC., Huang, JP. et al. Prismatic and full-waveform joint inversion. Appl. Geophys. 13, 511–518 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11770-016-0568-7
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