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- Patent Title: Subsurface electrical conductivity contrast reconstruction using narrow-band electromagnetic data and fullwave imaging
- Patent Title (中): 使用窄带电磁数据和全波成像的地下电导率对比度重建
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Application No.: US12712346Application Date: 2010-02-25
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Publication No.: US08447521B2Publication Date: 2013-05-21
- Inventor: Michael Tompkins
- Applicant: Michael Tompkins
- Applicant Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Current Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Agent Jeremy Berman; Darla Fonseca
- Main IPC: G01V3/17
- IPC: G01V3/17

Abstract:
Methods and related systems are described for analyzing electromagnetic survey data. Electromagnetic survey data of a subterranean formation is obtained using at least a downhole transceiver deployed in a borehole and a transceiver positioned on the surface or in another borehole. The electromagnetic survey data includes an incident wave component and a scattered wave component. The incident and scattered components are correlated so as to generate an image of the subterranean formation indicating spatial locations of one or more features, for example, electrical properties such as resistivity variations, in the formation. The image is based at least in part on one or more interference patterns of the incident and scattered wave components. The correlation preferably includes generating a simulation of the incident wave component propagated into the formation, and convolving the simulated propagated incident wave component with the scattered wave component. The simulation can be performed using an analytic continuation or a fullwave simulation.
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