Local probabilistic inversion of seismic AVO data

The drive towards extracting ever increasing amounts of information from seismic data has in the recent years increased the focus on the treatment and analysis of the associated uncertainties and lead to the utilization of additional information directly in the quantitative analysis of seismic data. In this context, a probabilistic framework for this quantitative analysis has a number of benefits, among these a rigorous treatment of the seismic data uncertainties, and a flexible setup for adding complementary information directly into the quantitative analysis. The following presents an approximate probabilistic method for inversion of seismic AVO data and real data examples illustrate its applicability.