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Full-waveform inversion (FWI), a popular technique that promises high-resolution models, has helped in improving the salt definition in inverted velocity models. The success of the inversion relies heavily on having prior knowledge of the…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-01-11 Abdullah Alali , Vladimir Kazei , Mahesh Kalita , Tariq Alkhalifah

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is used to reconstruct the physical properties of subsurface media which plays an important role in seismic exploration. However, the precision of FWI is seriously affected by the absence or inaccuracy of…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Zheng Cong , Xintong Dong , Shaoping Lu , Shiqi Dong , Xunqian Tong

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is an important geophysical technique considered in subsurface property prediction. It solves the inverse problem of predicting high-resolution Earth interior models from seismic data. Traditional FWI methods…

Nonlinear least squares data-fitting driven by physical process simulation is a classic and widely successful technique for the solution of inverse problems in science and engineering. Known as "Full Waveform Inversion" in application to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 William W. Symes

Full waveform inversion (FWI) plays an important role in velocity modeling due to its high-resolution advantages. However, its highly non-linear characteristic leads to numerous local minimums, which is known as the cycle-skipping problem.…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Qingchen Zhang , Shijun Cheng , Wei Chen , Weijian Mao

Extended formulation of Full Waveform Inversion (FWI), called Wavefield Reconstruction Inversion (WRI), offers potential benefits of decreasing the nonlinearity of the inverse problem by replacing the explicit inverse of the ill-conditioned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stéphane Operto

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is an advanced geophysical inversion technique. In fields such as oil exploration and geology, FWI is used for providing images of subsurface structures with higher resolution. The conventional algorithm…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-11-06 Jiahang Li , Hitoshi Mikada , Junichi Takekawa

In salt provinces, full-waveform inversion (FWI) is most likely to fail when starting with a poor initial model that lacks the salt information. Conventionally, salt bodies are included in the FWI starting model by interpreting the salt…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-04-07 Abdullah Alali , Tariq Alkhalifah

The full-waveform inversion (FWI) addresses the computation and characterization of subsurface model parameters by matching predicted data to observed seismograms in the frame of nonlinear optimization. We formulate FWI as a nonlinearly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Ali Gholami , Hossein S. Aghamiry , Stéphane Operto

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is an important and popular technique in subsurface earth property estimation. However, using the least-squares norm in the misfit function often leads to the local minimum solution of the optimization problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Da Li , Michael P. Lamoureux , Wenyuan Liao

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a highly nonlinear and ill-posed problem. On one hand, it can be easily trapped in a local minimum. On the other hand, the inversion results may exhibit strong artifacts and reduced resolution because of…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Dongzhuo Li , Jerry M. Harris

This paper proposes a computationally efficient algorithm to address the Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI) problem with a Total Variation (TV) constraint, designed to accurately reconstruct subsurface properties from seismic data. FWI, as an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Yudai Inada , Shingo Takemoto , Shunsuke Ono

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a powerful yet computationally expensive technique that can yield subsurface models at high resolution. Randomly selected shots ("mini-batches") can be used to approximate the misfit and the gradient of FWI,…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-05-25 Bharath Shekar

Elastic full-waveform inversion (FWI) when successfully applied can provide accurate and high-resolution subsurface parameters. However, its high computational cost prevents the application of this method to large-scale field-data…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-06-17 Ettore Biondi , Guillaume Barnier , Biondo Biondi , Robert G. Clapp

We describe a new method, full waveform inversion by model extension (FWIME) that recovers accurate acoustic subsurface velocity models from seismic data, when conventional methods fail. We leverage the advantageous convergence properties…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 Guillaume Barnier , Ettore Biondi , Robert G. Clapp , Biondo Biondi

We propose and test a method to reduce the dimensionality of Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) inputs as computational cost mitigation approach. Given modern seismic acquisition systems, the data (as input for FWI) required for an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Maayan Gelboim , Amir Adler , Mauricio Araya-Polo

Full waveform inversion (FWI) requires an accurate estimation of source signatures. Due to the coupling between the source signatures and the subsurface model, small errors in the former can translate into large errors in the latter. When…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Frichnel W. Mamfoumbi-Ozoumet , Ali Gholami , Stéphane Operto

Full--waveform inversion (FWI) is a method used to determine properties of the Earth from information on the surface. We use the squared Wasserstein distance (squared $W_2$ distance) as an objective function to invert for the velocity of…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-09-14 Srinath Mahankali

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a modeling algorithm used for seismic data processing and subsurface structure inversion. Theoretically, the main advantage of FWI is its ability to obtain useful subsurface structure information, such as…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Jiahang Li , Hitoshi Mikada , Junichi Takekawa

Elastic full-waveform inversion (EFWI) is a process used to estimate subsurface properties by fitting seismic data while satisfying wave propagation physics. The problem is formulated as a least-squares data fitting minimization problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Kamal Aghazade , Ali Gholami , Hossein S. Aghamiry , Hamid Reza Siahkoohi