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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…

The authors propose a new modeling approach based on the impedance field method (IFM) to analyze the general geometric variations in device simulations. Compared with the direct modeling of multiple variational devices, the proposed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Bo Fu , Seonghoon Jin , Woosung Choi , Keun-Ho Lee , Young-Kwan Park

The inversion of surface wave dispersion curves poses significant challenges due to the non-uniqueness, nonlinear, & ill-posed nature of the problem. Local search methods get trapped in suboptimal minima, whereas global search methods are…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-09-26 Kousik Mandal , Tarun Naskar

It is well-known that point sources with sufficient mutual distance can be reconstructed exactly from finitely many Fourier measurements by solving a convex optimization problem with Tikhonov-regularization (this property is sometimes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Martin Holler , Benedikt Wirth

We describe a novel framework for estimating subsurface properties, such as rock permeability and porosity, from time-lapse observed seismic data by coupling full-waveform inversion, subsurface flow processes, and rock physics models. For…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Dongzhuo Li , Kailai Xu , Jerry M. Harris , Eric Darve

Producing reliable acoustic subsurface velocity models still remains the main bottleneck of the oil and gas industry's traditional imaging sequence. In complex geological settings, the output of conventional ray-based or wave-equation-based…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-06-07 Guillaume Barnier , Ettore Biondi , Robert G. Clapp , Biondo Biondi

Full waveform inversion is an ill-posed inverse problem whose solution non-uniqueness -- i.e., arising from band-limited, finite-aperture, noisy data -- calls for uncertainty quantification to avoid overconfident geological interpretations.…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Kamal Aghazade , Ali Siahkoohi , Ali Gholami

Regularization methods improve the stability of ill-posed inverse problems by introducing some a priori characteristics for the solution such as smoothness or sharpness. In this contribution, we propose a multidimensional, scale-dependent…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-01-27 Wouter Deleersnyder , Benjamin Maveau , David Dudal , Thomas Hermans

Sound propagation in the ocean is considered. We demonstrate a novel algorithm for full wavefield reconstruction using pointwise measurements by means of a vertical array. The algorithm is based on the so-called discrete variable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Denis V. Makarov , Pavel S. Petrov

Seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) is a powerful geophysical imaging technique that produces high-resolution subsurface models by iteratively minimizing the misfit between the simulated and observed seismograms. Unfortunately,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Fangshu Yang , Jianwei Ma

Removing noise from piecewise constant (PWC) signals, is a challenging signal processing problem arising in many practical contexts. For example, in exploration geosciences, noisy drill hole records need separating into stratigraphic zones,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-10-23 Max A. Little , Nick S. Jones

Waveform inversion is theoretically a powerful tool to reconstruct subsurface structures, but a usually encountered problem is that accurate sources are very rare, causing the computation unstable and divergent. This challenging problem,…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-07-12 Han Yu

We study the seismic inverse problem for the recovery of subsurface properties in acoustic media. In order to reduce the ill-posedness of the problem, the heterogeneous wave speed parameter to be recovered is represented using a limited…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Florian Faucher , Otmar Scherzer , Hélène Barucq

Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a high-resolution technique used in geophysics to evaluate the physical parameters and construct subsurface models in a noisy and limited data scenario. The ill-posed nature of the FWI turns this a…

This paper presents a novel framework for full-waveform seismic source inversion using simulation-based inference (SBI). Traditional probabilistic approaches often rely on simplifying assumptions about data errors, which we show can lead to…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-05-15 A. A. Saoulis , D. Piras , A. Spurio Mancini , B. Joachimi , A. M. G. Ferreira

Source footprints represent an inherent problem to full-waveform inversion (FWI). They are caused by the high data sensitivity to the model parameters in the vicinity of the seismic sources and can be exacerbated by source-related errors in…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 Milad Bader , Robert G. Clapp , Kurt T. Nihei , Biondo Biondi

Partial differential equation (PDE)-governed inverse problems are fundamental across various scientific and engineering applications; yet they face significant challenges due to nonlinearity, ill-posedness, and sensitivity to noise. Here,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Siming Shan , Min Zhu , Youzuo Lin , Lu Lu

This work considers using reduced basis techniques in connection to (smoothened) total variation regularization in electrical impedance tomography, but analogous ideas can also be used for other inverse elliptic boundary value problems. It…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-18 A. Hannukainen , N. Hyvönen , V. Toresen

We propose an image deconvolution algorithm when the data is contaminated by Poisson noise. The image to restore is assumed to be sparsely represented in a dictionary of waveforms such as the wavelet or curvelet transforms. Our key…

Applications · Statistics 2009-11-13 François-Xavier Dupé , Jalal Fadili , Jean Luc Starck

Seismic attributes calculated by conventional methods are susceptible to noise. Conventional filtering reduces the noise in the cost of losing the spectral bandwidth. The challenge of having a high-resolution and robust signal processing…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 M. Kazemnia Kakhki , W. J. Mansur , K. Aghazadeh