Seismostratigraphic Inversion – Appraisal, Ambiguity and Uncertainty

Quantitative stratigraphic simulation allows construction of reservoir models based on mathematical expressions of the physics behind geology processes. Seismostratigraphic inversion estimates the free process parameters from seismic data. Imhof (2004) demonstrated feasibility with a synthetic dataset. Imhof (2005) demonstrated seismostratigraphic inversion of a prograding delta using 3D seismic field data. Now, we revisit this field example to analyze uncertainty and ambiguity in the inversion results.