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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

We address the estimation of seismic wavefields by means of Multidimensional Deconvolution (MDD) for various redatuming applications. While offering more accuracy than conventional correlation-based redatuming methods, MDD faces challenges…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Daria Sushnikova , Matteo Ravasi , David Keyes

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 present the Seismic Laboratory for Imaging and Modeling/Monitoring (SLIM) open-source software framework for computational geophysics and, more generally, inverse problems involving the wave-equation (e.g., seismic and medical…

Seismic full-waveform inversion tries to estimate subsurface medium parameters from seismic data. Areas with subsurface salt bodies are of particular interest because they often have hydrocarbon reservoirs on their sides or underneath.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Ajinkya Kadu , Tristan van Leeuwen , Wim A. Mulder

The ability to perform mathematical computations using metastructures is an emergent paradigm that carries the potential of wave-based analog computing to the realm of near-speed-of-light, low-loss, compact devices. We theoretically…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Dimitrios C. Tzarouchis , Brian Edwards , Nader Engheta

We propose a multi-model formulation of full-waveform inversion that is similar to image decomposition into a "cartoon" and "texture" used in image processing. Inversion problem is formulated as unconstrained multi-norm optimization that…

Geophysics · Physics 2014-10-28 Musa Maharramov , Biondo Biondi

The augmented Lagrangian (AL) method provides a flexible and efficient framework for solving extended-space full-waveform inversion (FWI), a constrained nonlinear optimization problem whereby we seek model parameters and wavefields that…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-06-29 Kamal Aghazade , Ali Gholami , Hossein S Aghamiry , Stephane Operto

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

While wavefield reconstruction through weighted low-rank matrix factorizations has been shown to perform well on marine data, out-of-the-box application of this technology to land data is hampered by ground roll. The presence of these…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-04-19 Yijun Zhang , Felix J. Herrmann

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

Seismic acoustic impedance plays a crucial role in lithological identification and subsurface structure interpretation. However, due to the inherently ill-posed nature of the inversion problem, directly estimating impedance from post-stack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jie Chen , Hongling Chen , Jinghuai Gao , Chuangji Meng , Tao Yang , XinXin Liang

Full waveform inversion (FWI) aims at estimating subsurface medium properties from measured seismic data. It is usually cast as a non-linear least-squares problem that incorporates uncertainties in the measurements. In exploration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Tristan van Leeuwen

In seismic waveform inversion, the reconstruction of the subsurface properties is usually carried out using approximative wave propagation models to ensure computational efficiency. The viscoelastic nature of the subsurface is often…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Kenneth Muhumuza , Lassi Roininen , Janne M. J. Huttunen , Timo Lähivaara

We introduce a data-adaptive inversion method that integrates classical or deep learning-based approaches with iterative graph Laplacian regularization, specifically targeting acoustic impedance inversion - a critical task in seismic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Davide Bianchi , Florian Bossmann , Wenlong Wang , Mingming Liu

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a powerful geophysical imaging technique that infers high-resolution subsurface physical parameters by solving a non-convex optimization problem. However, due to limitations in observation, e.g., limited…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Xiong-Bin Yan , Keke Wu , Zhi-Qin John Xu , Zheng Ma

Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI), which uses iterative methods to estimate high-resolution subsurface models from seismograms, is a powerful imaging technique in exploration geophysics. In recent years, the computational cost of FWI…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-11-28 Shihang Feng , Youzuo Lin , Brendt Wohlberg

We propose a class of spherical wavelet bases for the analysis of geophysical models and forthe tomographic inversion of global seismic data. Its multiresolution character allows for modeling with an effective spatial resolution that varies…

In this paper, a new earthquake location method based on the waveform inversion is proposed. As is known to all, the waveform misfit function is very sensitive to the phase shift between the synthetic waveform signal and the real waveform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Hao Wu , Jing Chen , Xueyuan Huang , Dinghui Yang

Seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) is a powerful technique to generate high resolution images of the Earth's interior. However, significant uncertainty exists in all FWI solutions due to imperfect acquisition geometries, inherent noise…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Xuebin Zhao , Andrew Curtis