P-P and Dynamic Time Warped P-SV Wave AVA Joint-Inversion With ℓ1–2 Regularization

S-wave velocity and mass density, which are two essential parameters in distinguishing lithology and hydrocarbon detection, are very difficult to retrieve even when long-offset gather data are used. P-P and P-SV waves joint inversion has been verified as an effective tool to accurately extract such fluid related parameters. However, registering the travel-time of P-P and P-SV waves on the identical coordinate is a significant but knotty problem for the joint inversion. Therefore, an improved strategy of prestack seismic joint inversion is proposed for accurately transforming the recorded data to elastic-parameter-based interpretive information. First, to overcome the weaknesses of artificial strenching and the local cross correlation-based method, a nonstrenching and globally optimal registration algorithm, i.e., dynamic time warping (DTW), is exploited to match the P-P and P-SV waves. Then, a new method has been developed for the joint inversion method by combining the logarithmic absolute-criterion-based misfit function with
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norm-based penalty, which can significantly improve the vertical resolution and stability of inversion results. The numerical examples demonstrate that the DTW algorithm can obtain better registered results than the conventional method. Moreover, the proposed joint inversion method performs better than the conventional prestack inversion in both resolution and accuracy, especially for the S-wave velocity.