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The standard smooth electrical resistivity tomography inversion produces an estimate of subsurface conductivity that has blurred boundaries, damped magnitudes, and often contains inversion artifacts. In many problems the expected…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Teddi Herring , Lindsey J. Heagy , Adam Pidlisecky , Edwin Cey

Elastic full-waveform inversion (FWI) when successfully applied can provide accurate and high-resolution subsurface parameters. However, its high computational cost prevents the application of this method to large-scale field-data…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-06-17 Ettore Biondi , Guillaume Barnier , Biondo Biondi , Robert G. Clapp

Multi-frequency subspace migration imaging technique are usually adopted for the non-iterative imaging of unknown electromagnetic targets such as cracks in the concrete walls or bridges, anti-personnel mines in the ground, etc. in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 Won-Kwang Park

In the process of tunnel excavation, advanced geological prediction technology has become indispensable for safe, economical, and efficient tunnel construction. Although traditional methods such as drilling and geological analysis are…

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a method that utilizes seismic data to invert the physical parameters of subsurface media by minimizing the difference between simulated and observed waveforms. Due to its ill-posed nature, FWI is…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Xintong Dong , Zhengyi Yuan , Jun Lin , Shiqi Dong , Xunqian Tong , Yue Li

Global seismic tomography, taking advantage of seismic waves from natural earthquakes, provides essential insights into the earth's internal dynamics. Advanced Full-waveform Inversion (FWI) techniques, whose aim is to meticulously interpret…

We present the development of extended diffraction tomography, a new approach to the solution of the linear seismic waveform inversion problem. This method has several appealing features, such as the use of arbitrary depth-dependent…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-05-05 R. B. Schlottmann

To analyze seismic wave propagation in geological structures, it is possible to consider various numerical approaches: the finite difference method, the spectral element method, the boundary element method, the finite element method, the…

Geophysics · Physics 2011-08-18 Jean-François Semblat

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

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

We introduce a `double-difference' method for the inversion for seismic wavespeed structure based on adjoint tomography. Differences between seismic observations and model predictions at individual stations may arise from factors other than…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-07-08 Yanhua O. Yuan , Frederik J. Simons , Jeroen Tromp

Classically, anisotropic surface wave tomography is treated as an optimisation problem where it proceeds through a linearised two-step approach. It involves the construction of 2D group or phase velocity maps for each considered period,…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 John Keith Magali

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

Inversion techniques are widely used to reconstruct subsurface physical properties (e.g., velocity, conductivity) from surface-based geophysical measurements (e.g., seismic, electric/magnetic (EM) data). The problems are governed by partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Yinan Feng , Yinpeng Chen , Shihang Feng , Peng Jin , Zicheng Liu , Youzuo Lin

Seismic waveforms contain rich information about earthquake processes, making effective data analysis crucial for earthquake monitoring, source characterization, and seismic hazard assessment. With rapid developments in deep learning, the…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-06-10 Weiqiang Zhu , Junhao Song , Haoyu Wang , Jannes Münchmeyer

Inversion of Rayleigh-wave dispersion data is particularly challenging at sites with strong impedance contrasts, where modal energy often transitions smoothly from the fundamental to higher modes at low frequencies. Analysts may…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Mrinal Bhaumik , Brady R. Cox

Full waveform inversion is a successful procedure for determining properties of the earth from surface measurements in seismology. This inverse problem is solved by a PDE constrained optimization where unknown coefficients in a computed…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-04-19 Bjorn Engquist , Brittany D. Froese , Yunan Yang

We present an adjoint-based optimization method to invert for stress and frictional parameters used in earthquake modeling. The forward problem is linear elastodynamics with nonlinear rate-and-state frictional faults. The misfit functional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Vidar Stiernström , Martin Almquist , Eric M. Dunham

Full waveform inversion (FWI) strongly depends on an accurate starting model to succeed. This is particularly true in the elastic regime: The cycle-skipping phenomenon is more severe in elastic FWI compared to acoustic FWI, due to the short…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-10-14 Hongyu Sun , Laurent Demanet

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