This work had as a general aim to develop a systematic methodology for the inversion of seismic reflection data organized in common-midpoint gathers (CMP), starting from 1D vertical variation of velocity and thickness that allows to obtain interval velocity, vint,n, in time, the correspondent interval thickness, zn, and the correspondent mean-square velocity, vRMS,n in individualized CMP gathers. A direct consequence of this work the transformation of these values from time to depth. Two methods were developed to attack the problem defined as velocity analysis based on the estimation of interval velocity. The first method was based on manual picking of reflection events on CMP gathers, and inversion by curve fitting in the least-square sense. The second method was based on the otimization of the semblance function to obtain an automatic picking. The methodology combined two types of optimization: a Global Method (Price or Simplex), and Local Method (second order gradient or cojugate), subject to a priori information and constraints. The picking of events in time-distance section is of fundamental importance in the process of inversion, and the picked points are the input data along with a priori information of the model to be adjusted. The picking must, in principle, avoid events that represent multiples, diffractions and intersections, and in a section over 50 pickings can be made, while in a semblance map not more than 10 events could usually be picked by eye. The application of this work is focused on seismic data of marine sedimentary basins to obtain a distribution of velocities for the subsurface, where a plane-horizontal model is applied for individual CMP sections, and that the solution can be used as an initial model in subsequent processes. The real data used in this study were collected by Petrobras in 1985, and the selected seismic line was of number L5519 of the Camamu Basin, and the CMP presented is of number 237. The line consists of 1098 shot points with right-lateral arrangement. The sampling interval is 4 ms. The spacing between the geophones is 13.34 m with the first geophone located at 300 m from the source. The spacing between the sources is 26.68 m. As a general conclusion, the method for estimating interval velocity in this work stands as an alternative support to velocity analysis, where it is necessary a control over the sequential inversion of CMP gathers along the seismic line such that the solution can be used as an initial model for imaging, and further tomographic inversion. As future work, we can be propose studies directely and specifically related to seismic velocity analysis by extending the 2D semblance optimization method to 3D, and extending the present studies to the method based on the image ray, aiming at producing a continuous velocity map for the entire section in an automatic way.
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