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Nonlinear least squares data-fitting driven by physical process simulation is a classic and widely successful technique for the solution of inverse problems in science and engineering. Known as "Full Waveform Inversion" in application to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 William W. Symes

Estimating the material distribution of Earth's subsurface is a challenging task in seismology and earthquake engineering. The recent development of physics-informed neural network (PINN) has shed new light on seismic inversion. In this…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Pu Ren , Chengping Rao , Hao Sun , Yang Liu

In current seismic acquisition practice, there is an increasing drive for sparsely (in space) acquired data, often in irregular geometry. These surveys can trade off subsurface information for efficiency/cost - creating a problem of…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-01-26 Dieuwertje Kuijpers , Ivan Vasconcelos , Patrick Putzky

Gravity inversion is the problem of estimating subsurface density distributions from observed gravitational field data. We consider the two-dimensional (2D) case, in which recovering density models from one-dimensional (1D) measurements…

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is an important geophysical technique considered in subsurface property prediction. It solves the inverse problem of predicting high-resolution Earth interior models from seismic data. Traditional FWI methods…

We present a new seismic inversion method that uses deep learning (DL) features for the subsurface velocity model estimation. The DL feature is a low-dimensional representation of the high-dimensional seismic data, which is automatically…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Yuqing Chen , Erdinc Saygin

The direct-current (DC) resistivity method is a commonly used geophysical technique for surveying adverse geological conditions. Inversion can reconstruct the resistivity model from data, which is an important step in the geophysical…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Bin Liu , Yonghao Pang , Peng Jiang , Zhengyu Liu , Benchao Liu , Yongheng Zhang , Yumei Cai , Jiawen Liu

Seismic velocity inversion is a key task in geophysical exploration, enabling the reconstruction of subsurface structures from seismic wave data. It is critical for high-resolution seismic imaging and interpretation. Traditional…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-09-29 Mahedi Hasan

Seismic inversion refers to the process of estimating reservoir rock properties from seismic reflection data. Conventional and machine learning-based inversion workflows usually work in a trace-by-trace fashion on seismic data, utilizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Ahmad Mustafa , Motaz Alfarraj , Ghassan AlRegib

The inverse problem of electrical resistivity surveys (ERSs) is difficult because of its nonlinear and ill-posed nature. For this task, traditional linear inversion methods still face challenges such as suboptimal approximation and initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Bin Liu , Qian Guo , Shucai Li , Benchao Liu , Yuxiao Ren , Yonghao Pang , Xu Guo , Lanbo Liu , Peng Jiang

This paper investigates unsupervised learning of Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI), which has been widely used in geophysics to estimate subsurface velocity maps from seismic data. This problem is mathematically formulated by a second order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Peng Jin , Xitong Zhang , Yinpeng Chen , Sharon Xiaolei Huang , Zicheng Liu , Youzuo Lin

Effective structural assessment of urban infrastructure is essential for sustainable land use and resilience to climate change and natural hazards. Seismic wave methods are widely applied in these areas for subsurface characterization and…

Model-based seismic inversion is a key technique in reservoir characterization, but traditional methods face significant limitations, such as relying on 1D average stationary wavelets and assuming an unrealistic lateral resolution. To…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Marcus Saraiva , Ana Muller , Alexandre Maul

Neural-networks have seen a surge of interest for the interpretation of seismic images during the last few years. Network-based learning methods can provide fast and accurate automatic interpretation, provided there are sufficiently many…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-03-28 Bas Peters , Eldad Haber , Justin Granek

Reservoir models are numerical representations of the subsurface petrophysical properties such as porosity, volume of minerals and fluid saturations. These are often derived from elastic models inferred from seismic inversion in a two-step…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Leonardo Azevedo , Dario Grana , Catarina Amaro

We describe a novel framework for estimating subsurface properties, such as rock permeability and porosity, from time-lapse observed seismic data by coupling full-waveform inversion, subsurface flow processes, and rock physics models. For…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Dongzhuo Li , Kailai Xu , Jerry M. Harris , Eric Darve

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

The near-surface environment is often too complex to enable inference of hydrological and environmental variables using one geophysical data type alone. Joint inversion and coupled inverse modeling involving numerical flow- and transport…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-01-09 N. Linde , J. Doetsch

Geophysical inversion should ideally produce geologically realistic subsurface models that explain the available data. Multiple-point statistics is a geostatistical approach to construct subsurface models that are consistent with…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-01-09 T. Zahner , T. Lochbühler , G. Mariethoz , N. Linde

Seismic waves are the most sensitive probe of the Earth's interior we have. With the dense data sets available in exploration, images of subsurface structures can be obtained through processes such as migration. Unfortunately, relating…

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