3D probabilistic geology differentiation based on airborne geophysics,
mixed Lp norm joint inversion and petrophysical measurements
Abstract
Geology differentiation converts physical property models derived from
geophysical data to a 3D quasi-geology model. It represents a step
change in quantitative interpretation of geophysical data. However,
quantifying the uncertainties of the differentiated geological units in
a 3D quasi-geology model has been largely unexplored. We have developed
an empirical method to construct 3D probabilistic quasi-geology models
in the deterministic inversion framework. We used mixed Lp norm joint
inversion to recover a large sequence of physical property models based
on multiple airborne geophysical data sets. Prior petrophysical
measurements were used to determine the acceptance and rejection of
these models. We then performed geology differentiation for all these
accepted models and obtained a set of 3D quasi-geology models, based on
which we constructed probabilistic 3D quasi-geology models. Our work has
broad implications for 3D geological model building based on multiple
geophysical and/or petrophysical measurements.