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My PhD Thesis, PDF 3MB - Stanford University

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4.3 VALIDATION TEST<br />

Before using equation (4.11), let us first examine its validity by considering an<br />

ideal synthetic example in the zero offset VSP geometry. For this geometry both input<br />

and output centroid frequencies fs and fR are measurable since signals in two successive<br />

receivers can be viewed as the incident and transmitted spectra. In this case, we write<br />

equation (4.11) as<br />

oi <br />

1<br />

2<br />

i<br />

f i<br />

z i<br />

, (4.14)<br />

where fi = fi – fi+1 is the centroid frequency difference between two successive depth<br />

levels, zi is the distance between these two receivers, oi is the average attenuation<br />

coefficient between the two levels, and i 2 the variance at i th receiver.<br />

The generalized R/T coefficients method for vertically layered media (Apsel,<br />

1979) is used to model the seismic response. Attenuation in this synthetic model is<br />

introduced through the complex velocity [see equation (2.26)]. The full wavefield is<br />

calculated at 220 receivers. Figure 4.4a shows the model. The frequency band of the<br />

source is 10 Hz – 2010 Hz. This frequency band is much broader than the real VSP, but<br />

it is used here to illustrate the range of typical crosswell data for which this algorithm<br />

was initially developed. I select a time window that isolates the first arrival. Figure 4.4d<br />

is a plot of the centroid frequency picked from the data. The centroid frequency<br />

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