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Day-Lewis & Lane 2004
Day-Lewis, F.D. and Lane, J.W. (2004). Assessing the resolution-dependent utility of tomograms for geostatistics. Geophysical Research Letters 31: doi: 10.1029/2004GL019617. issn: 0094-8276.

Geophysical tomograms are used increasingly as auxiliary data for geostatistical modeling of aquifer and reservoir properties. The correlation between tomographic estimates and hydrogeologic properties is commonly based on laboratory measurements, co-located measurements at boreholes, or petrophysical models. The inferred correlation is assumed uniform throughout the interwell region; however, tomographic resolution varies spatially due to acquisition geometry, regularization, data error, and the physics underlying the geophysical measurements. Blurring and inversion artifacts are expected in regions traversed by few or only low-angle raypaths. In the context of radar traveltime tomography, we derive analytical models for (1) the variance of tomographic estimates, (2) the spatially variable correlation with a hydrologic parameter of interest, and (3) the spatial covariance of tomographic estimates. Synthetic examples demonstrate that tomograms of qualitative value may have limited utility for geostatistics; moreover, the imprint of regularization may preclude inference of meaningful spatial statistics from tomograms.

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Keywords
Exploration Geophysics, Data processing, Exploration Geophysics, Downhole methods, Hydrology, Groundwater hydrology, Hydrology, Stochastic processes, Mathematical Geophysics, Inverse theory
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Geophysical Research Letters
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