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This paper deals with the spectral element modeling of seismic wave propagation at the global scale. Two aspects relevant to low-frequency studies are particularly emphasized. First, the method is generalized beyond the Cowling…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Emmanuel Chaljub , Bernard Valette

Waveform inversion is theoretically a powerful tool to reconstruct subsurface structures, but a usually encountered problem is that accurate sources are very rare, causing the computation unstable and divergent. This challenging problem,…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-07-12 Han Yu

Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) uses full seismic records to estimate subsurface velocity structure. This requires a highly nonlinear and nonunique inverse problem to be solved, and Bayesian methods have been used to quantify…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-04-13 Xin Zhang , Andrew Curtis

We present Wideband Back-Projection Diffusion, an end-to-end probabilistic framework for approximating the posterior distribution induced by the inverse scattering map from wideband scattering data. This framework produces highly accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Borong Zhang , Martín Guerra , Qin Li , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

In the present manuscript, we consider the problem of dispersive wave simulation on a rotating globally spherical geometry. In this Part IV, we focus on numerical aspects while the model derivation was described in Part III. The algorithm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Gayaz Khakimzyanov , Denys Dutykh , Oleg Gusev

Seismic data noise processing is an important part of seismic exploration data processing, and the effect of noise elimination is directly related to the follow-up processing of data. In response to this problem, many authors have proposed…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-10-28 Junheng Peng , Yong Li , Zhangquan Liao , Xuben Wang , Xingyu Yang

The one dimensional wave equation serves as a basic model for imaging modalities such as seismic which utilize acoustic data reflected back from a layered medium. In 1955 Peterson et al. described a single scattering approximation for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-02 Peter C. Gibson

We analyze the scattering of linear internal waves in a two dimensional channel with subcritical bottom topography. We construct the scattering matrix for the internal wave problem in a channel with straight ends, mapping incoming data to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Zhenhao Li , Jian Wang , Jared Wunsch

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 wave scattering problem seeks to estimate a heterogeneous, inaccessible medium, modeled by unknown variable coefficients in wave equations, from transient recordings of waves generated by probing signals. It is a widely studied…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Liliana Borcea , Yiyang Liu , Jörn Zimmerling

Seismic processing plays a crucial role in transforming raw data into high-quality subsurface images, pivotal for various geoscience applications. Despite its importance, traditional seismic processing techniques face challenges such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Fabian Fuchs , Mario Ruben Fernandez , Norman Ettrich , Janis Keuper

The problem of imaging extended targets (sources or scatterers) is formulated in the framework of compressed sensing with emphasis on subwavelength resolution. The proposed formulation of the problems of inverse source/scattering is…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-15 Albert C. Fannjiang

This paper is concerned with a numerical method for a 3D coefficient inverse problem with phaseless scattering data. These are multi-frequency data generated by a single direction of the incident plane wave. Our numerical procedure consists…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Michael V. Klibanov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen

Scattering of seismic waves can reveal subsurface structures but usually in a piecemeal way focused on specific target areas. We used a manifold learning algorithm called "the Sequencer" to simultaneously analyze thousands of seismograms of…

We study an inverse problem for the wave equation where localized wave sources in random scattering media are to be determined from time resolved measurements of the waves at an array of receivers. The sources are far from the array, so the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-18 Liliana Borcea , Ilker Kocyigit

This paper analyzes inverse scattering for the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in the case where the wave speed is piecewise constant. Scattering data recorded for an arbitrarily small interval of frequencies is shown to determine the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Sophia Bugarija , Peter C. Gibson , Guanghui Hu , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao

Multidimensional up-down deconvolution effectively eliminates surface-related multiples from ocean-bottom seismic data. Recently, several down-down deconvolution methods have been introduced as attractive alternatives. Whereas…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Kees Wapenaar , Matteo Ravasi , Claudio Bagaini

Pseudodifferential parabolic equations with an operator square root arise in wave propagation problems as a one-way counterpart of the Helmholtz equation. The expression under the square root usually involves a differential operator and a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Matthias Ehrhardt , Jochen Glück , Pavel Petrov , Stefan Tappe

In geophysics, wave propagation in elastic media is a crucial subject. In this context, seismology has made significant progress as a result of numerous advances, among these stands out the advancement of numerical methods such as the…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-08-02 Gabriela Landinez , Santiago Rueda , Fabio D. Lora-Clavijo

In this paper we present a hybrid approach to numerically solve two-dimensional electromagnetic inverse scattering problems, whereby the unknown scatterer is hosted by a possibly inhomogeneous background. The approach is `hybrid' in that it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-22 G. Giorgi , M. Brignone , R. Aramini , M. Piana