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CHAPTER 5. THREE-TERM <strong>AVO</strong> INVERSION 75<br />

5.5 Summary<br />

In this chapter, <strong>the</strong> Bayes’ <strong>the</strong>orem was used to formulate <strong>the</strong> inversion using three possible<br />

prior distributions which could be used to regularize <strong>AVO</strong> inversion. Each regularization<br />

method was investigated with syn<strong>the</strong>tic and real data examples. The syn<strong>the</strong>tic data inver-<br />

sion via Univariate Cauchy prior does a good job in <strong>the</strong> two-term inversion but <strong>the</strong> result is<br />

unstable when this prior is used for <strong>the</strong> three-term inversion. This implies that <strong>the</strong> two-term<br />

is more stable than three-term. In o<strong>the</strong>r words, <strong>the</strong> regularization with correlation infor-<br />

mation is very important to stabilize <strong>the</strong> <strong>inverse</strong> <strong>problem</strong>. This was demonstrated <strong>by</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Multivariate Gaussian and Trivariate Cauchy regularizations although <strong>the</strong> result in Multi-<br />

variate Gaussian prior has no sparsity in <strong>the</strong> solution. The Trivariate Cauchy regularization<br />

has two advantages combined (introducing correlation and also its role for sparsity). In<br />

nutshell, it plays a good role in stabilizing <strong>the</strong> inversion and increase <strong>the</strong> resolution <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

inverted parameters. This makes it promising for better prediction <strong>of</strong> subsurface physical<br />

parameters <strong>by</strong> avoiding discrepancy which usually arises for decision making.

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