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Seismic full-waveform inversion is a core technology for obtaining high-resolution subsurface model parameters. However, its highly nonlinear characteristics and strong dependence on the initial model often lead to the inversion process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Caiyun Liu , Siyang Pei , Qingfeng Yu , Jie Xiong

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

We present a wave-equation inversion method that inverts skeletonized data for the subsurface velocity model. The skeletonized representation of the seismic traces consists of the low-rank latent-space variables predicted by a well-trained…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-04-25 Yuqing Chen , Gerard T. Schuster

Seismic imaging is the numerical process of creating a volumetric representation of the subsurface geological structures from elastic waves recorded at the surface of the Earth. As such, it is widely utilized in the energy and construction…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-11-05 Juan Romero , Wolfgang Heidrich , Nick Luiken , Matteo Ravasi

The data-driven approach has been demonstrated as a promising technique to solve complicated scientific problems. Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is commonly epitomized as an image-to-image translation task, which motivates the use of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Chengyuan Deng , Youzuo Lin

Fast and accurate magnitude prediction is the key to the success of earthquake early warning. We have proposed a new approach based on deep learning for P-wave magnitude prediction (EEWNet), which takes time series data as input instead of…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-07-07 Yanwei Wang , Zifa Wang , Zhenzhong Cao , Jingyan Lan

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an accurate imaging approach for modeling velocity structure by minimizing the misfit between recorded and predicted seismic waveforms. However, the strong non-linearity of FWI resulting from fitting…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Weiqiang Zhu , Kailai Xu , Eric Darve , Biondo Biondi , Gregory C. Beroza

Three-dimensional seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) provides high-fidelity subsurface velocity models but is restricted by high computational cost, strong nonlinearity, cycle-skipping, and heavy dependence on initial models. Although…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Guoxin Chen , Wenjie Wang , Haiyang Lu , Jinxin Chen

I demonstrate that the conventional seismic full-waveform inversion algorithm can be constructed as a recurrent neural network and so implemented using deep learning software such as TensorFlow. Applying another deep learning concept, the…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-02-01 Alan Richardson

The magnetic inversion method is one of the non-destructive geophysical methods, which aims to estimate the subsurface susceptibility distribution from surface magnetic anomaly data. Recently, supervised deep learning methods have been…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-08-24 Yinshuo Li , Zhuo Jia , Wenkai Lu , Cao Song

Seismic exploration remains the most critical method for characterizing subsurface structures in geophysics. However, complex surface conditions often cause a non-uniform distribution of seismic receivers along survey lines, leading to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Mingwei Wang , Junheng Peng , Yingtian Liu , Yong Li

Applying deep-learning models to geophysical applications has attracted special attentions during the past a couple of years. There are several papers published in this domain involving with different topics primarily focusing on synthetic…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-10-01 Ping Lu

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

Deep learning enhances earthquake monitoring capabilities by mining seismic waveforms directly. However, current neural networks, trained within specific areas, face challenges in generalizing to diverse regions. Here, we employ a data…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-10-04 Xiong Zhang , Miao Zhang

This study explores the use of deep learning for predicting the time averaged shear wave velocity in the top 30 m of the subsurface ($V_{s30}$) at strong motion recording stations in T\"urkiye. $V_{s30}$ is a key parameter in site…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Baris Yilmaz , Erdem Akagündüz , Salih Tileylioglu

Seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) has seen promising advancements through deep learning. Existing approaches typically focus on task-specific models trained and evaluated in isolation that lead to limited generalization across different…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Koustav Ghosal , Abhranta Panigrahi , Arnav Chavan , ArunSingh , Deepak Gupta

Seismic wave forward and inverse modeling are fundamental tools for subsurface imaging and geological hazard assessment. Conventional grid-based numerical methods, such as finite-difference and finite-element approaches, often require dense…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Chaohua Liang , Xingliang Peng , Jun Matsushima

This study presents a deep learning-based approach to seismic velocity inversion problem, focusing on both noisy and noiseless training datasets of varying sizes. Our Seismic Velocity Inversion Network (SVInvNet) introduces a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Mojtaba Najafi Khatounabad , Hacer Yalim Keles , Selma Kadioglu

Multi-channel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) is a seismic method employed to obtain useful information about shear-wave velocities in the near surface. A fundamental step in this methodology is the extraction of dispersion curves from…

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is capable of generating high-resolution subsurface parameter models, but it is susceptible to cycle-skipping when the data lack low-frequency. Unfortunately, the low-frequency components (< 5.0 Hz) are often…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Shijun Cheng , Yi Wang , Qingchen Zhang , Randy Harsuko , Tariq Alkhalifah