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In areas of complex geology such as the Canadian Foothills, the effects of anisotropy are apparent in seismic data and estimation of anisotropic parameters for use in seismic imaging is not a trivial task. Here we explore the applicability of common‐focus point (CFP)‐based velocity analysis to estimate anisotropic parameters for the variably tilted shale thrust sheet in the Canadian Foothills model. To avoid the inherent velocity‐depth ambiguity, we assume that the elastic properties of thrust‐sheet with respect to transverse isotropy symmetry axis are homogeneous, the reflector below the thrust‐sheet is flat, and that the anisotropy is weak. In our CFP approach to velocity analysis, for a poorly imaged reflection point, a traveltime residual is obtained as the time difference between the focusing operator for an assumed subsurface velocity model and the corresponding CFP response obtained from the reflection data. We assume that this residual is due to unknown values for anisotropy, and we perform an iterative linear inversion to obtain new model parameters that minimize the residuals. Migration of the data using parameters obtained from our inversion results in a correctly positioned and better focused reflector below the thrust sheet. For traveltime computation we use a brute force mapping scheme that takes into account weakly tilted transverse isotropy media. For inversion, the problem is set up as a generalized Newton's equation where traveltime error (differential time shift) is linearly dependent on the parameter updates. The iterative updates of parameters are obtained by a least‐squares solution of Newton's equations. The significance of this work lies in its applicability to areas where transverse isotropy layers are heterogeneous laterally, and where transverse isotropy layers are overlain by complex structures that preclude a moveout curve fitting.

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