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Iterative geostatistical seismic inversion integrates seismic and well data to infer the spatial distribution of subsurface elastic properties. These methods provide limited assessment to the spatial uncertainty of the inverted elastic…

Recent applications of deep learning in the seismic domain have shown great potential in different areas such as inversion and interpretation. Deep learning algorithms, in general, require tremendous amounts of labeled data to train…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-03 Motaz Alfarraj , Ghassan AlRegib

Newtonian machine learning (NML) is a wave-equation inversion method that inverts single-dimensional latent space (LS) features of the seismic data for retrieving the subsurface background velocity model. The single-dimensional LS features…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-12-17 Yuqing Chen , Erdinc Saygin

Regularization is critical for solving ill-posed geophysical inverse problems. Explicit regularization is often used, but there are opportunities to explore the implicit regularization effects that are inherent in a Neural Network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Anran Xu , Lindsey J. Heagy

Recent applications of machine learning algorithms in the seismic domain have shown great potential in different areas such as seismic inversion and interpretation. However, such algorithms rarely enforce geophysical constraints - the lack…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-08-22 Motaz Alfarraj , Ghassan AlRegib

Magnetic data inversion is an important tool in geophysics, used to infer subsurface magnetic susceptibility distributions from surface magnetic field measurements. This inverse problem is inherently ill-posed, characterized by non-unique…

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

Scientific curiosity, exploration of georesources and environmental concerns are pushing the geoscientific research community toward subsurface investigations of ever-increasing complexity. This review explores various approaches to…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-01-09 N. Linde , P. Renard , T. Mukerji , J. Caers

4D seismic inversion is the leading method to quantitatively monitor fluid flow dynamics in the subsurface, with applications ranging from enhanced oil recovery to subsurface CO2 storage. The process of inverting seismic data for reservoir…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 Juan Romero , Nick Luiken , Matteo Ravasi

Seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) is a powerful geophysical imaging technique that produces high-resolution subsurface models by iteratively minimizing the misfit between the simulated and observed seismograms. Unfortunately,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Fangshu Yang , Jianwei Ma

Seismic acoustic impedance inversion is one of the most challenging tasks in geophysical exploration. Many studies have proposed the use of deep learning for processing; however, most of them are limited by factors such as seismic wavelets…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Junheng Peng , Xiaowen Wang , Yingtian Liu , Yong Li , Mingwei Wang

Subsurface imaging involves solving full waveform inversion (FWI) to predict geophysical properties from measurements. This problem can be reframed as an image-to-image translation, with the usual approach being to train an encoder-decoder…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-05-22 Yinan Feng , Yinpeng Chen , Peng Jin , Shihang Feng , Zicheng Liu , Youzuo Lin

Seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) is a widely used technique in geophysics for inferring subsurface structures from seismic data. And InversionNet is one of the most successful data-driven machine learning models that is applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Zhepeng Wang , Isaacshubhanand Putla , Weiwen Jiang , Youzuo Lin

The success of building a high-resolution velocity model using machine learning is hampered by generalization limitations that often limit the success of the approach on field data. This is especially true when relying on neural operators…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Xiao Ma , Tariq Alkhalifah

Subsurface applications including geothermal, geological carbon sequestration, oil and gas, etc., typically involve maximizing either the extraction of energy or the storage of fluids. Characterizing the subsurface is extremely complex due…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-06-07 M. K. Mudunuru , S. Karra , N. Makedonska , T. Chen

The reconstruction of the 3D permittivity map from ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data is of great importance for mapping subsurface environments and inspecting underground structural integrity. Traditional iterative 3D reconstruction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Qiqi Dai , Yee Hui Lee , Hai-Han Sun , Genevieve Ow , Mohamed Lokman Mohd Yusof , Abdulkadir C. Yucel

We present vec2pix, a deep neural network designed to predict categorical or continuous 2D subsurface property fields from one-dimensional measurement data (e.g., time series), thereby offering a new approach to solve inverse problems. The…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Eric Laloy , Niklas Linde , Diederik Jacques

We consider the problem of 3D seismic inversion from pre-stack data using a very small number of seismic sources. The proposed solution is based on a combination of compressed-sensing and machine learning frameworks, known as…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Maayan Gelboim , Amir Adler , Yen Sun , Mauricio Araya-Polo

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 present a wave-equation inversion method that inverts skeletonized data for the subsurface velocity model. The skeletonized representation of the seismic traces consists of the low-rank latent-space variables predicted by a well-trained…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-04-25 Yuqing Chen , Gerard T. Schuster