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The inversion of petrophysical parameters from seismic data represents a fundamental step in the process of characterizing the subsurface. We propose a novel, data-driven approach named Seis2Rock that utilizes optimal basis functions…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Miguel Corrales , Hussein Hoteit , Matteo Ravasi

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…

In this study, we present the development and application of the physics-informed convolutional decoder (PICD) framework for inverse modeling of heterogenous groundwater flow. PICD stands out as a direct inversion method, eliminating the…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Nanzhe Wang , Xiang-Zhao Kong , Dongxiao Zhang

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…

Time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is a popular geophysical method to estimate three-dimensional (3D) permeability fields from electrical potential difference measurements. Traditional inversion and data assimilation methods…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 M. K. Mudunuru , E. L. D. Cromwell , H. Wang , X. Chen

The automated interpretation and inversion of seismic data have advanced significantly with the development of Deep Learning (DL) methods. However, these methods often require numerous costly well logs, limiting their application only to…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-10-28 Yimin Dou , Kewen Li , Wenjun Lv , Timing Li , Hongjie Duan , Zhifeng Xu

In a previous paper, we introduced a framework for carrying out petrophysically and geologically guided geophysical inversions. In that framework, petrophysical and geological information is modelled with a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). In…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-03-29 Thibaut Astic , Lindsey J. Heagy , Douglas W. Oldenburg

Magnetotelluric deep learning (DL) inversion methods based on joint data-driven and physics-driven have become a hot topic in recent years. When mapping observation data (or forward modeling data) to the resistivity model using neural…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 Peifan Jiang , Xuben Wang , Shuang Wang , Fei Deng , Kunpeng Wang , Bin Wang , Yuhan Yang

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

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

Seismic inversion helps geophysicists build accurate reservoir models for exploration and production purposes. Deep learning-based seismic inversion works by training a neural network to learn a mapping from seismic data to rock properties…

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

Movement of soil moisture associated with tree root-water uptake is ecologically important, but technically challenging to measure. Here, the self-potential (SP) method, a passive electrical geophysical method, is used to characterize water…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-06-17 Emily Voytek , Holly Barnard , Damien Jougnot , Kamini Singha

Seismic imaging is the numerical process of creating a volumetric representation of the subsurface geological structures from elastic waves recorded at the surface of the Earth. As such, it is widely utilized in the energy and construction…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-11-05 Juan Romero , Wolfgang Heidrich , Nick Luiken , Matteo Ravasi

The work discussed and presented in this paper focuses on the history matching of reservoirs by integrating 4D seismic data into the inversion process using machine learning techniques. A new integrated scheme for the reconstruction of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-21 Clement Etienam

Observations of the solar surface reveal the presence of flows with length scales of around $35$ Mm, commonly referred to as supergranules. Inferring the sub-surface flow profile of supergranules from measurements of the surface and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Jishnu Bhattacharya , Shravan M. Hanasoge

The magnetic inversion method is one of the non-destructive geophysical methods, which aims to estimate the subsurface susceptibility distribution from surface magnetic anomaly data. Recently, supervised deep learning methods have been…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-08-24 Yinshuo Li , Zhuo Jia , Wenkai Lu , Cao Song

The task of simultaneously reconstructing multiple physical coefficients in partial differential equations (PDEs) from observed data is ubiquitous in applications. In this work, we propose an integrated data-driven and model-based iterative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Kui Ren , Lu Zhang

Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) is increasingly used to study subsurface hydrological processes. It shows promising potential for estimating soil water content, a key but challenging property to quantify. However, converting the…

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

Real--time and accurate construction of regional sound speed profiles (SSP) is important for building underwater positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) systems as it greatly affect the signal propagation modes such as trajectory. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Wei Huang , Jixuan Zhou , Fan Gao , Jiajun Lu , Sijia Li , Pengfei Wu , Junting Wang , Hao Zhang , Tianhe Xu