P- and S-wave velocity model estimation from surface wave data

Abstract

Abstract-Surface wave analysis performed on data acquired on purpose or extracted from seismic gathers acquired for body wave surveying is a powerful tool for S-wave velocity model estimation. S-wave velocity is relevant for many engineering applications, but the recent application for hydrocarbon exploration data processing (static corrections) makes the estimation of P-wave velocity a desired additional target of the method. Several approaches ranging from joint inversion to approximated direct estimation have been implemented in recent here and are here reviewed. These approaches, applied here on synthetic 1D examples have been also extended to 2D real world applications.