Acoustic Full Waveform Inversion of Marine Reflection Seismic Data

The aim of this thesis is the application of 2D acoustic full waveform inversion to conventional marine streamer data acquired in the North Sea. The possibilities and limitations of the inversion method are investigated in details in order to provide some guidance on the appropriate choice of the data processing routines and on the design of an efficient inversion scheme. Furthermore, the thesis discusses several practical issues related to the field data inversion.