High resolution pre-stack seismic inversion using few-shot learning

Abstract

We propose to use a Few-Shot Learning (FSL) method for the pre-stack seismic inversion problem in obtaining a high resolution reservoir model from recorded seismic data. Recently, artificial neural network (ANN) demonstrates great advantages for seismic inversion because of its powerful feature extraction and parameter learning ability. Hence, ANN method could provide a high resolution inversion result that are critical for reservoir characterization. However, the ANN approach requires plenty of labeled samples for training in order to obtain a satisfactory result. For the common problem of scarce samples in the ANN seismic inversion, we create a novel pre-stack seismic inversion method that takes advantage of the FSL. The results of conventional inversion are used as the auxiliary dataset for ANN based on FSL, while the well log is regarded the scarce training dataset. According to the characteristics of seismic inversion (large amount and high dimensional), we construct an arch network (A-Net) architecture to implement this method. An example shows that this method can improve the accuracy and resolution of inversion results.

Keywords

• Few-shot learning
• Artificial neural network
• Seismic inversion