Deep-learning tomography

Abstract Velocity-model building is a key step in hydrocarbon exploration. The main product of velocity-model building is an initial model of the subsurface that is subsequently used in seismic imaging and interpretation workflows. Reflection or refraction tomography and full-waveform inversion (FWI) are the most commonly used techniques in velocity-model building. On one hand, tomography is a time-consuming activity that relies on successive updates of highly human-curated analysis of gathers. On the other hand, FWI is very computationally demanding with no guarantees of global convergence. We propose and implement a novel concept that bypasses these demanding steps, directly producing an accurate gridding or layered velocity model from shot gathers. Our approach relies on training deep neural networks. The resulting predictive model maps relationships between the data space and the final output (particularly the presence of high-velocity segments that might indicate salt formations). The training task t...

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