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Aircraft-based surveying to collect airborne electromagnetic data is a key method to image large swaths of the Earth's surface in pursuit of better knowledge of aquifer systems. Despite many years of advancements, 3D inversion still poses…
This study focuses on inverting time-domain airborne electromagnetic data in 2D by training a neural-network to understand the relationship between data and conductivity, thereby removing the need for expensive forward modeling during the…
Full 3D inversion of time-domain Airborne ElectroMagnetic (AEM) data requires specialists' expertise and a tremendous amount of computational resources, not readily available to everyone. Consequently, quasi-2D/3D inversion methods are…
The possibility to have results very quickly after, or even during, the collection of electromagnetic data would be important, not only for quality check purposes, but also for adjusting the location of the proposed flight lines during an…
In ultrasound tomography, the speed of sound inside an object is estimated based on acoustic measurements carried out by sensors surrounding the object. An accurate forward model is a prominent factor for high-quality image reconstruction,…
Full 3D modelling of time-domain electromagnetic data requires tremendous computational resources. Consequently, simplified physics models prevail in geophysics, using a much faster but approximate (1D) forward model. We propose to join the…
The computational resources required to solve the full 3D inversion of time-domain electromagnetic data are immense. To overcome the time-consuming 3D simulations, we construct a surrogate model, more precisely, a data-driven statistical…
Probabilistic inversion methods based on Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation are well suited to quantify parameter and model uncertainty of nonlinear inverse problems. Yet, application of such methods to CPU-intensive forward models…
Tomography can be used to reveal internal properties of a 3D object using any penetrating wave. Advanced tomographic imaging techniques, however, are vulnerable to both systematic and random errors associated with the experimental…
Electromagnetic induction methods are a common means for geophysical survey. For soil structures that are invariant in one spatial dimension such as trench structures, we propose a fast forward model based on a 2D response function, taking…
The advent of fast sensing technologies allows for real-time model updates in many applications where the model parameters are uncertain. Bayesian algorithms, such as ensemble smoothers, offer a real-time probabilistic inversion accounting…
This paper analyzes the nonlinear correspondence between the reflectivity profile (model) and the plane wave impulse response at the boundary (data) for a three-dimensional half space consisting of a sequence of homogeneous horizontal…
Electromagnetic induction (EMI) techniques are widely used in geophysical surveying. Their success is mainly due to their easy and fast data acquisition, but the effectiveness of data inversion is strongly influenced by the quality of…
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…
The fusion of sensor data from heterogeneous sensors is crucial for robust perception in various robotics applications that involve moving platforms, for instance, autonomous vehicle navigation. In particular, combining camera and lidar…
Characterising the noise of an airborne electromagnetic (AEM) system is critical in correctly imaging the earth's subsurface conductivity. Deterministic and probabilistic geophysical inversion algorithms require foreknowledge of the system…
Noninvasive reconstruction of cardiac electrical activity from surface electrocardiograms (ECG) involves solving an ill-posed inverse problem. Cardiac electrophysiological (EP) models have been used as important a priori knowledge to…
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…
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…
This paper concerns electromagnetic 3D subsurface imaging in connection with sparsity of signal sources. We explored an imaging approach that can be implemented in situations that allow obtaining a large amount of data over a surface or a…