A workflow for cooperative inversion of seismic and magnetotelluric data

We present a cooperative inversion approach for acoustic impedance using seismic and magnetotelluric data. In this approach, the magnetotelluric data, sensitive to the resistivity of rocks are used to get the large scale background spatial trends of the acoustic impedance model, while the seismic da...

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Main Authors: Takam-Takougang, E., Harris, B., Kepic, Anton
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25589
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author Takam-Takougang, E.
Harris, B.
Kepic, Anton
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Harris, B.
Kepic, Anton
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description We present a cooperative inversion approach for acoustic impedance using seismic and magnetotelluric data. In this approach, the magnetotelluric data, sensitive to the resistivity of rocks are used to get the large scale background spatial trends of the acoustic impedance model, while the seismic data are used to get the small-scale features. The connections between resistivity and elastic properties of rocks are obtained from petrophysical relationships derived from borehole data. Structural constraints derived from seismic are used to improve the magnetotelluric inversion. We present an application of this technique to synthetic data derived from previous interpretation of seismic and magnetotelluric models in a mineral province. The synthetic example shows how an improved result is obtained using our cooperative inversion workflow.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-255892018-12-14T00:52:35Z A workflow for cooperative inversion of seismic and magnetotelluric data Takam-Takougang, E. Harris, B. Kepic, Anton We present a cooperative inversion approach for acoustic impedance using seismic and magnetotelluric data. In this approach, the magnetotelluric data, sensitive to the resistivity of rocks are used to get the large scale background spatial trends of the acoustic impedance model, while the seismic data are used to get the small-scale features. The connections between resistivity and elastic properties of rocks are obtained from petrophysical relationships derived from borehole data. Structural constraints derived from seismic are used to improve the magnetotelluric inversion. We present an application of this technique to synthetic data derived from previous interpretation of seismic and magnetotelluric models in a mineral province. The synthetic example shows how an improved result is obtained using our cooperative inversion workflow. 2015 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25589 10.1071/ASEG2015ab236 Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists restricted
spellingShingle Takam-Takougang, E.
Harris, B.
Kepic, Anton
A workflow for cooperative inversion of seismic and magnetotelluric data
title A workflow for cooperative inversion of seismic and magnetotelluric data
title_full A workflow for cooperative inversion of seismic and magnetotelluric data
title_fullStr A workflow for cooperative inversion of seismic and magnetotelluric data
title_full_unstemmed A workflow for cooperative inversion of seismic and magnetotelluric data
title_short A workflow for cooperative inversion of seismic and magnetotelluric data
title_sort workflow for cooperative inversion of seismic and magnetotelluric data
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25589