The stacking velocity is often obtained manually. However, manually picking is inefficient and is easily affected by subjective factors such as the priori information and the experience of different processors. To enhance its objectivity, efficiency and consistency, we investigated an unsupervised clustering intelligent velocity picking method based on the Gaussian mixture model (GMM). This method can automatically pick the stacking velocity fast, and provide uncertainty analysis as a quality control. Combined with the geometry feature of energy clusters in velocity spectra, taking advantages of the geometric diversity of energy clusters, GMM can ft the energy clusters with different distributions more appropriately. Then, mean values of the final several submodels are located as the optimal velocity, and the multiples are avoided under the expert knowledge and geological rules. In addition, according to the covariance of submodels, we can derive the uncertainty analysis of the final time-velocity pairs, so as to indicate the reliability of picking velocity at different depths. Moreover, the automated interpreted velocity field is used for both normal moveout (NMO) correction and stacking. The comparison with the manual references is adopted to evaluate the quality of the unsupervised clustering intelligent velocity picking method. Both synthetic data and 3D field data have shown that the proposed unsupervised intelligent velocity picking method can not only achieve similar accuracy with manual results, but also get rid of multiples. Furthermore, compared with manual picking, it can significantly improve the efficiency and accuracy in identifying pore and cave structures, as well as indicating the uncertainty of time-velocity pairs by variance.
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