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FWI seeks to achieve a high-resolution model of the subsurface through the application of multi-variate optimization to the seismic inverse problem. Although now a mature technology, FWI has limitations related to the choice of the…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Christopher Zerafa , Pauline Galea , Cristiana Sebu

We propose a novel inverse-modelling approach which estimates the parameters of a simple land-surface model (LSM) by assimilating data into a differentiable physics-based forward model. The governing equations are expressed within a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Ruiyue Huang , Claire E. Heaney , Maarten van Reeuwijk

The focusing of a seismic image is directly linked to the accuracy of the velocity model. Therefore, a critical step in a seismic imaging workflow is to perform a focusing analysis on a seismic image to determine velocity errors. While the…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Joseph Jennings , Robert Clapp , Mauricio Araya-Polo , Biondo Biondi

In salt provinces, full-waveform inversion (FWI) is most likely to fail when starting with a poor initial model that lacks the salt information. Conventionally, salt bodies are included in the FWI starting model by interpreting the salt…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-04-07 Abdullah Alali , Tariq Alkhalifah

The effective utilization of observational data is frequently hindered by insufficient resolution. To address this problem, we present a new spatio-temporal super-resolution (STSR) model, called InWaveSR. It is built on a deep learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Xinjie Wang , Zhongrui Li , Peng Han , Chunxin Yuan , Jiexin Xu , Zhiqiang Wei , Jie Nie

Seismic inverse modeling is a common method in reservoir prediction and it plays a vital role in the exploration and development of oil and gas. Conventional seismic inversion method is difficult to combine with complicated and abstract…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-09 Pengfei Xie , YanShu Yin , JiaGen Hou , Mei Chen , Lixin Wang

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) plays a vital role in geoscience to explore the subsurface. It utilizes the seismic wave to image the subsurface velocity map. As the machine learning (ML) technique evolves, the data-driven approaches using ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Junhuan Yang , Hanchen Wang , Yi Sheng , Youzuo Lin , Lei Yang

Enhancing the frequency bandwidth of the seismic data is always the pursuance at the geophysical community. High resolution of seismic data provides the key resource to extract detailed stratigraphic knowledge. Here, a novel approach, based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Yanyan Zhang , Ping Lu , Hua Yu , Stan Morris

Thermal state reconstruction -- reversing convection to recover the thermal structure of the mantle at an earlier geologic time -- is an important tool to understand the evolution of mantle convection and its relation to seismic tomographic…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-02-02 Chenxi Kong , Michael Gurnis , Zachary E. Ross

Machine learning-based seismic processing models are typically trained separately to perform specific seismic processing tasks (SPTs), and as a result, require plenty of training data. However, preparing training data sets is not trivial,…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-09-21 Shijun Cheng , Randy Harsuko , Tariq Alkhalifah

We introduce a probabilistic technique for full-waveform inversion, employing variational inference and conditional normalizing flows to quantify uncertainty in migration-velocity models and its impact on imaging. Our approach integrates…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-04-16 Ziyi Yin , Rafael Orozco , Mathias Louboutin , Felix J. Herrmann

Seismic imaging faces challenges due to the presence of several uncertainty sources. Uncertainties exist in data measurements, source positioning, and subsurface geophysical properties. Reverse time migration (RTM) is a high-resolution…

Seismic waves bring information from the physical properties of the earth to the surface. Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a local optimization technique which tries to invert the recorded wave fields to the physical properties. An…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Nasser Kazemi

Seismic full-waveform inversion tries to estimate subsurface medium parameters from seismic data. Areas with subsurface salt bodies are of particular interest because they often have hydrocarbon reservoirs on their sides or underneath.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Ajinkya Kadu , Tristan van Leeuwen , Wim A. Mulder

We consider the high-resolution seismic imaging method called full-waveform inversion (FWI). FWI is a data fitting method aimed at inverting for subsurface mechanical parameters. Despite the large adoption of FWI by the academic and…

Using machine learning (ML), high performance computing, and a large body of geospatial information, we develop surrogate models to predict soil liquefaction across regional scales. Two sets of models - one global and one specific to New…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Morgan D. Sanger , Mertcan Geyin , Brett W. Maurer

Seismic full-waveform inversion is a core technology for obtaining high-resolution subsurface model parameters. However, its highly nonlinear characteristics and strong dependence on the initial model often lead to the inversion process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Caiyun Liu , Siyang Pei , Qingfeng Yu , Jie Xiong

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is an inverse problem for estimating the wave velocity distribution in a given domain, based on observed data on the boundaries. The inversion is computationally demanding because we are required to solve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Matan Goren , Eran Treister

To obtain high-resolution images of subsurface structures from seismic data, seismic imaging techniques such as Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) serve as crucial tools. However, FWI involves solving a nonlinear and often non-unique inverse…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-06-10 Yuke Xie , Hervé Chauris , Nicolas Desassis

Estimating porosity models via seismic data is challenging due to the signal noise and insufficient resolution of seismic data. Although impedance inversion is often used by combining with well logs, several hurdles remain to retrieve…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-11-29 Honggeun Jo , Yongchae Cho , Michael J. Pyrcz , Hewei Tang , Pengcheng Fu
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