A Brief Study on Square and Long-Pixels Model Parameterization for Cross-Well Seismic Tomography Purposes

A brief analysis concerning discretization of depth models for borehole-to-borehole seismic tomography implementation has been performed. It focused on the application of rectangular cells (long pixels) to the discretization of the model parameters rather than the conventional square cells. Results have successfully shown the ability of x-direction long pixels in increasing resolution of the tomograms. In principle, horizontal layering and the cross-well shot-receiver configuration supported such ability.