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Title: Tensor-based reconstruction applied to regularized time-lapse data
SUMMARY Repeatedly recording seismic data over a period of months or years is one way to identify trapped oil and gas and to monitor CO2 injection in underground storage reservoirs and saline aquifers. This process of recording data over time and then differencing the images assumes the recording of the data over a particular subsurface region is repeatable. In other words, the hope is that one can recover changes in the Earth when the survey parameters are held fixed between data collection times. Unfortunately, perfect experimental repeatability almost never occurs. Acquisition inconsistencies such as changes in weather (currents, wind) for marine seismic data are inevitable, resulting in source and receiver location differences between surveys at the very least. Thus, data processing aimed at improving repeatability between baseline and monitor surveys is extremely useful. One such processing tool is regularization (or binning) that aligns multiple surveys with different source or receiver configurations onto a common grid. Data binned onto a regular grid can be stored in a high-dimensional data structure called a tensor with, for example, x and y receiver coordinates and time as indices of the tensor. Such a higher-order data structure describing a subsection of the Earth often exhibits redundancies which one can exploit to fill in gaps caused by sampling the surveys onto the common grid. In fact, since data gaps and noise increase the rank of the tensor, seeking to recover the original data by reducing the rank (low-rank tensor-based completion) successfully fills in gaps caused by binning. The tensor nuclear norm (TNN) is defined by the tensor singular value decomposition (tSVD) which generalizes the matrix SVD. In this work we complete missing time-lapse data caused by binning using the alternating direction method of multipliers (or ADMM) to minimize the TNN. For a synthetic experiment with three parabolic events in which the time-lapse difference involves an amplitude increase in one of these events between baseline and monitor data sets, the binning and reconstruction algorithm (TNN-ADMM) correctly recovers this time-lapse change. We also apply this workflow of binning and TNN-ADMM reconstruction to a real marine survey from offshore Western Australia in which the binning onto a regular grid results in significant data gaps. The data after reconstruction varies continuously without the large gaps caused by the binning process.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1846690
PAR ID:
10368614
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Oxford University Press
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Geophysical Journal International
Volume:
231
Issue:
1
ISSN:
0956-540X
Page Range / eLocation ID:
p. 638-649
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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