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Full waveform inversion (FWI) is crucial for reconstructing high-resolution subsurface models, but it is often hindered, considering the limited data, by its null space resulting in low-resolution models, and more importantly, by its…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-10-23 Xinquan Huang , Fu Wang , Tariq Alkhalifah

We present a technique for reconstructing subsurface velocity model changes from time-lapse seismic survey data using full-waveform inversion (FWI). The technique is based on simultaneously inverting multiple survey vintages, with model…

Geophysics · Physics 2014-09-30 Musa Maharramov , Biondo Biondi

Seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) has seen promising advancements through deep learning. Existing approaches typically focus on task-specific models trained and evaluated in isolation that lead to limited generalization across different…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Koustav Ghosal , Abhranta Panigrahi , Arnav Chavan , ArunSingh , Deepak Gupta

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

Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a high-resolution technique used in geophysics to evaluate the physical parameters and construct subsurface models in a noisy and limited data scenario. The ill-posed nature of the FWI turns this a…

Reverse time migration (RTM) is an algorithm widely used in the oil and gas industry to process seismic data. It is a computationally intensive task that suits well in parallel computers. Methods such as RTM can be parallelized in shared…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Ítalo A. S. Assis , João B. Fernandes , Tiago Barros , Samuel Xavier-de-Souza

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a standard algorithm in seismic imaging. Its implementation requires the a priori choice of a number of "design parameters", such as the positions of sensors for the actual measurements and one (or more)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Shaunagh Downing , Silvia Gazzola , Ivan G. Graham , Euan A. Spence

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a technique widely used in geophysics to obtain high-resolution subsurface velocity models from waveform seismic data. Due to its large computation cost, most flavors of FWI rely only on the computation of…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Mustafa Alfarhan , Matteo Ravasi , Fuqiang Chen , Tariq Alkhalifah

The full-waveform inversion (FWI) addresses the computation and characterization of subsurface model parameters by matching predicted data to observed seismograms in the frame of nonlinear optimization. We formulate FWI as a nonlinearly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Ali Gholami , Hossein S. Aghamiry , Stéphane Operto

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

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is an advanced geophysical inversion technique. In fields such as oil exploration and geology, FWI is used for providing images of subsurface structures with higher resolution. The conventional algorithm…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-11-06 Jiahang Li , Hitoshi Mikada , Junichi Takekawa

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a critical technique in subsurface imaging, aiming to reconstruct high-resolution subsurface properties from surface measurements. Acoustic FWI involves two physical modalities, seismic waveforms and…

We describe a new method, full waveform inversion by model extension (FWIME) that recovers accurate acoustic subsurface velocity models from seismic data, when conventional methods fail. We leverage the advantageous convergence properties…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 Guillaume Barnier , Ettore Biondi , Robert G. Clapp , Biondo Biondi

Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) techniques aim to find a high-resolution subsurface geophysical model provided with waveform data. Some recent effort in data-driven FWI has shown some encouraging results in obtaining 2D velocity maps.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Qili Zeng , Shihang Feng , Brendt Wohlberg , Youzuo Lin

In this article, continuous Galerkin finite elements are applied to perform full waveform inversion (FWI) for seismic velocity model building. A time-domain FWI approach is detailed that uses meshes composed of variably sized triangular…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Keith J. Roberts , Alexandre Olender , Lucas Franceschini , Robert C. Kirby , Rafael S. Gioria , Bruno S. Carmo

Full waveform inversion (FWI) aims to reconstruct unknown physical coefficients in wave equations using the wavefield data generated from multiple incoming sources. In this work, we propose an offline-online computational strategy for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Wen Ding , Kui Ren , Lu Zhang

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is used to reconstruct the physical properties of subsurface media which plays an important role in seismic exploration. However, the precision of FWI is seriously affected by the absence or inaccuracy of…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Zheng Cong , Xintong Dong , Shaoping Lu , Shiqi Dong , Xunqian Tong

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) reconstructs high-resolution subsurface models via multi-variate optimization but faces challenges with solver selection and data availability. Deep Learning (DL) offers a promising alternative, bridging…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Christopher Zerafa

Full waveform inversion (FWI) commonly stands for the state-of-the-art approach for imaging subsurface structures and physical parameters, however, its implementation usually faces great challenges, such as building a good initial model to…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Jian Sun , Kristopher Innanen

Objectives: Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a high-resolution geophysical imaging technique that reconstructs subsurface velocity models by iteratively minimizing the misfit between predicted and observed seismic data. However, under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xinyi Zhang , Caiyun Liu , Jie Xiong , Qingfeng Yu