TY - GEN
T1 - Inverting for lithology using resistivity models and boreholes
AU - Christiansen, A.V.
AU - Foged, N.
AU - Auken, E.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - We present an automatic method for parameterization of a 3D model of the subsurface, integrating lithological information from boreholes with resistivity models through an inverse optimization, with the objective of further detailing for geological models or as direct input to groundwater models. The parameter of interest is the clay fraction, expressed as the relative length of clay-units in a depth interval. The clay fraction is obtained from lithological logs and the clay fraction from the resistivity is obtained by establishing a simple petrophysical relationship, a translator function, between resistivity and the clay fraction. Through inversion we use the lithological data and the resistivity data to determine the optimum spatially distributed translator function. Applying the translator function we get a 3D clay fraction model, which holds information from the resistivity dataset and the borehole dataset in one variable. We apply the concept to the Norsminde survey in Denmark integrating approximately 700 boreholes and more than 100,000 resistivity models from an airborne survey in the parameterization of the 3D model covering 156 km2. The final 3D model differentiates between clay materials and different high resistive materials from information held in resistivity model and borehole observations respectively.
AB - We present an automatic method for parameterization of a 3D model of the subsurface, integrating lithological information from boreholes with resistivity models through an inverse optimization, with the objective of further detailing for geological models or as direct input to groundwater models. The parameter of interest is the clay fraction, expressed as the relative length of clay-units in a depth interval. The clay fraction is obtained from lithological logs and the clay fraction from the resistivity is obtained by establishing a simple petrophysical relationship, a translator function, between resistivity and the clay fraction. Through inversion we use the lithological data and the resistivity data to determine the optimum spatially distributed translator function. Applying the translator function we get a 3D clay fraction model, which holds information from the resistivity dataset and the borehole dataset in one variable. We apply the concept to the Norsminde survey in Denmark integrating approximately 700 boreholes and more than 100,000 resistivity models from an airborne survey in the parameterization of the 3D model covering 156 km2. The final 3D model differentiates between clay materials and different high resistive materials from information held in resistivity model and borehole observations respectively.
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U2 - 10.3997/2214-4609.20141948
DO - 10.3997/2214-4609.20141948
M3 - Conference article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85089160279
T3 - Near Surface Geoscience 2014 - 20th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
BT - Near Surface Geoscience 2014 - 20th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
PB - European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers
T2 - 20th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics of EAGE's Near Surface Geoscience Division
Y2 - 14 September 2014 through 18 September 2014
ER -