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Geostatistical Interpretation of Sparsely Obtained Seismic Data Combined with Satellite Gravity Data  

Park, Gye-Soon (Dept. Earth Science Education, Seoul National University)
Oh, Seok-Hoon (Dept. Geosystem Engineering Kangwon National University)
Lee, Heui-Soon (Dept. Science Education, Gyeongin National University of Education)
Kwon, Byung-Doo (Dept. Earth Science Education, Seoul National University)
Yoo, Hai-Soo (Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.10, no.4, 2007 , pp. 252-258 More about this Journal
Abstract
We have studied the feasibility of geostatistics approach to enhancing analysis of sparsely obtained seismic data by combining with satellite gravity data. The shallow depth and numerous fishing nets in The Yellow Sea, west of Korea, makes it difficult to do seismic surveys in this area. Therefore, we have attempted to use geostatistics to integrate the seismic data along with gravity data. To evaluate the feasibility of this approach, we have extracted only a few seismic profile data from previous surveys in the Yellow Sea and performed integrated analysis combining with the results from gravity data under the assumption that seismic velocity and density have a high physical correlation. First, we analyzed the correlation between extracted seismic profiles and depths obtained from gravity inversion. Next, we transferred the gravity depth to travel time using non-linear indicator transform and analyze residual values by kriging with varying local means. Finally, the reconstructed time structure map was compared with the original seismic section given in the previous study. Our geostatistical approach demonstrates relatively satisfactory results and especially, in the boundary area where seismic lines are sparse, gives us more in-depth information than previously available.
Keywords
Geostatistical integration; Gravity data; Seismic survey;
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