Coloured Inversion: Job Parameterisation

There are only a few parameters to set up in coloured inversion while the default parameters should work for most inversion projects. A Butterworth filter needs to be defined by low and high cut frequencies and their corresponding slopes.

Seismic amplitude spectrum smoothing is controlled by only one parameter – the width of a Papoulis taper. White noise is added to the algorithm to stabilise the derived operator. Finally a phase rotation can be either manually typed in or automatically determined by the program.

There are also 3 time windows that users need to select. They are windows for impedance log, seismic data and phase estimation which allow the targeted inversion to be conducted.

A section of inverted seismic traces is displayed along with a Butterworth filtered impedance log from which users can quality-control the inversion results.

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