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Basement relief gravimetry is crucial in geophysics, especially for oil exploration and mineral prospecting. It involves solving an inverse problem to infer geological model parameters from observed data. The model represents basement…

Geophysical inversion attempts to estimate the distribution of physical properties in the Earth's interior from observations collected at or above the surface. Inverse problems are commonly posed as least-squares optimization problems in…

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In this article, we propose a non-parametric Bayesian level-set method for simultaneous reconstruction of two different piecewise constant coefficients in an elliptic partial differential equation. We show that the Bayesian formulation of…

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Localization and mapping are core perceptual capabilities for underwater robots. Stereo cameras provide a low-cost means of directly estimating metric depth to support these tasks. However, despite recent advances in stereo depth estimation…

Time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is a popular geophysical method to estimate three-dimensional (3D) permeability fields from electrical potential difference measurements. Traditional inversion and data assimilation methods…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 M. K. Mudunuru , E. L. D. Cromwell , H. Wang , X. Chen

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an advanced technique for reconstructing high-resolution subsurface physical parameters by progressively minimizing the discrepancy between observed and predicted seismic data. However, conventional FWI…

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An algorithm is proposed for the segmentation of image into multiple levels using mean and standard deviation in the wavelet domain. The procedure provides for variable size segmentation with bigger block size around the mean, and having…

Seismic tomography solves high-dimensional optimization problems to image subsurface structures of Earth. In this paper, we propose to use random batch methods to construct the gradient used for iterations in seismic tomography.…

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We present a new seismic inversion method that uses deep learning (DL) features for the subsurface velocity model estimation. The DL feature is a low-dimensional representation of the high-dimensional seismic data, which is automatically…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Yuqing Chen , Erdinc Saygin

Seismic waves bring information from the physical properties of the earth to the surface. Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a local optimization technique which tries to invert the recorded wave fields to the physical properties. An…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Nasser Kazemi

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…

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We consider the case in which a robot has to navigate in an unknown environment but does not have enough on-board power or payload to carry a traditional depth sensor (e.g., a 3D lidar) and thus can only acquire a few (point-wise) depth…

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Geophysical inversion should ideally produce geologically realistic subsurface models that explain the available data. Multiple-point statistics is a geostatistical approach to construct subsurface models that are consistent with…

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Signal processing on graph is attracting more and more attentions. For a graph signal in the low-frequency subspace, the missing data associated with unsampled vertices can be reconstructed through the sampled data by exploiting the…

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This comprehensive review examines electrical and seismic refraction methods, emphasizing their advanced applications in electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and seismic refraction tomography (SRT). These techniques are crucial for…

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Underwater imagery is often compromised by factors such as color distortion and low contrast, posing challenges for high-level vision tasks. Recent underwater image restoration (UIR) methods either analyze the input image at full…

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Reconstructing the structural geology and mineral composition of the first few kilometers of the Earth's subsurface from sparse or indirect surface observations remains a long-standing challenge with critical applications in mineral…

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Underwater scene reconstruction poses a substantial challenge because of the intricate interplay between light and the medium, resulting in scattering and absorption effects that make both depth estimation and rendering more complex. While…

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Acoustic- and elastic-waveform inversion is an important and widely used method to reconstruct subsurface velocity image. Waveform inversion is a typical non-linear and ill-posed inverse problem. Existing physics-driven computational…

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