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The small-strain damping ratio plays a crucial role in assessing the response of soil deposits to earthquake-induced ground motions and general dynamic loading. The damping ratio can theoretically be inverted for after extracting…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-04-11 Aser Abbas , Mauro Aimar , Brady R. Cox , Sebastiano Foti

Elastic geophysical properties (such as P- and S-wave velocities) are of great importance to various subsurface applications like CO$_2$ sequestration and energy exploration (e.g., hydrogen and geothermal). Elastic full waveform inversion…

We use the Pareto Joint Inversion, together with the Particle Swarm Optimization, to invert the Love and quasi-Rayleigh surface-wave speeds, obtained from dispersion curves, in order to infer the elasticity parameters, mass densities and…

An exploit of the Sequential Importance Sampling (SIS) algorithm using Differential Algebra (DA) techniques is derived to develop an efficient particle filter. The filter creates an original kind of particles, called scout particles, that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Simone Servadio

In a typical multi-standard military communication receiver, fast and reliable spectrum sensing unit is required to extract the information of multiple channels (frequency bands) present in a wideband input signal. In this paper, an energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-16 S. J. Darak , A. P. Vinod , E. M-K. Lai

Deep learning is an increasingly popular approach for inverting surface wave dispersion curves to obtain Vs profiles. However, its generalizability is constrained by the depth and velocity scales of training data. We propose a unified deep…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Tianjian Cheng , Hongrui Xu , Jiayu Feng , Xiongyu Hu , Chaofan Yao

A new inversion method for determining near-surface shear currents from a measured wave spectrum is introduced. The method is straightforward to implement and starts from the existing state-of-the-art technique of assigning effective depths…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Benjamin K. Smeltzer , Eirik Æsøy , Anna Ådnøy , Simen Å. Ellingsen

In the last two decades, Fresnel diffraction (FD) of a plane wave from phase steps has been systematically studied and applied for precise measurements of light wavelength, and height and refractive index of the step. In this study we…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-13 Masoud Ghoorchi-Beygi , Masoomeh Dashtdar

The role of frequency is very important in electromagnetics since it may significantly change how a material interacts with an incident wave if the frequency spectrum varies. Here, we demonstrate a new kind of microwave window that has the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-04 Hiroki Wakatsuchi , Jiang Long , Daniel F. Sievenpiper

Here, we present a new method to evaluate the expectation value of the power spectrum of a time series. A statistical approach is adopted to define the method. After its demonstration, it is validated showing that it leads to the known…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 G. A. Caliandro , D. F. Torres , N. Rea

Starting from the general modal solutions for a homogeneous layer of arbitrary material and crystalline symmetry, a matrix formalism is developed to establish the semi analytical expressions of the surface impedance matrices (SIM) for a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-11-25 Victor Y. Zhang , Bertrand Dubus , Bernard Collet , Michel Destrade

Full--waveform inversion (FWI) is a method used to determine properties of the Earth from information on the surface. We use the squared Wasserstein distance (squared $W_2$ distance) as an objective function to invert for the velocity of…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-09-14 Srinath Mahankali

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a widely used technique in seismic processing to produce high resolution Earth models that fully explain the recorded seismic data. FWI is a local optimisation problem which aims to minimise in a…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-11-22 Christopher Zerafa , Pauline Galea , Cristiana Sebu

Seismic wavefields recorded on land are strongly distorted by near-surface heterogeneity, introducing trace-specific, frequency-dependent phase perturbations that persist even after advanced time processing. Conventional surface-consistent…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Akshika Rohatgi , Andrey Bakulin , Sergey Fomel

Inverse analysis has been utilized to understand unknown underground geological properties by matching the observational data with simulators. To overcome the underconstrained nature of inverse problems and achieve good performance, an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Hao Wu , Sarah Greer , Daniel O'Malley

A method to improve l1 performance of the CS (Compressive Sampling) for A-scan SFCW-GPR (Stepped Frequency Continuous Wave-Ground Penetrating Radar) signals with known spectral energy density is proposed. Instead of random sampling, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Andriyan Bayu Suksmono

We develop a pseudo power spectrum technique for measuring the lensing power spectrum from weak lensing surveys in both the full sky and flat sky limits. The power spectrum approaches have a number of advantages over the traditional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-06 Chiaki Hikage , Masahiro Takada , Takashi Hamana , David Spergel

Accurate seismic imaging and velocity estimation are essential for subsurface characterization. Conventional inversion techniques, such as full-waveform inversion, remain computationally expensive and sensitive to initial velocity models.…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Yunlin Zeng , Huseyin Tuna Erdinc , Rafael Orozco , Felix Herrmann

We present a probabilistic multiphysics inversion based on Bayesian inference with trans-dimensional models. We jointly consider magnetotelluric, receiver function, and Rayleigh-wave dispersion data to infer one-dimensional lithospheric…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 P. Shahsavari , J. Dettmer , M. J. Unsworth , A. Schaeffer

Rayleigh wave dispersion curves have been widely used in near-surface studies, and are primarily inverted for the shear wave (S-wave) velocity profiles. However, the inverse problem is ill-posed, non-unique and nonlinear. Here, we introduce…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-10-24 Rohan Sharma , Divakar Vashisth , Bharath Shekar