High Resolution Tomographic MVA with Automation

C019 HIGH RESOLUTION TOMOGRAPHIC MVA WITH AUTOMATION Summary 1 Prestack reflection tomography is gradually being promoted from a method secondary to the vertical velocity updating scheme to become the main model building tool used routinely on the majority of imaging projects. Key to this transition is the recent development of efficient automatic picking algorithms which provide high accuracy high resolution and high volume velocity information with minimum user intervention. Following this trend tomographic algorithms have evolved from expert-only tools to mainstream industrial applications . Today we routinely auto-pick several hundreds of square Km of data and invert those picks into