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Seafloor topography can excite strong interface waves called Scholte waves that are often dispersive and characterized by slow propagation but large amplitude. This type of wave can be used to invert for near seafloor shear wave velocity…

Geophysics · Physics 2013-06-20 Yingcai Zheng , Xinding Fang , Jing Liu , Michael C. Fehler

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…

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Consider the inverse random source scattering problem for the two-dimensional time-harmonic elastic wave equation with an inhomogeneous, anisotropic mass density. The source is modeled as a microlocally isotropic generalized Gaussian random…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Jianliang Li , Peijun Li

Starting with far field data of time-harmonic acoustic or electromagnetic waves radiated by a collection of compactly supported sources in two-dimensional free space, we develop criteria and algorithms for the recovery of the far field…

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Resonance frequencies can provide useful information on the deformation occurring during fracturing experiments or $CO_2$ management, complementary to the microseismic event distribution. An accurate time-frequency representation is of…

Geophysics · Physics 2013-01-08 Roberto H. Herrera , Jean-Baptiste Tary , Mirko van der Baan

We introduce the Seismic Waveforms dataset for Automatic Neural-network processing (SWAN), a comprehensive and standardized benchmark designed to advance data-driven seismic signal processing. SWAN aggregates diverse synthetic and real…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Xinyue Gong , Sergey Fomel , Yangkang Chen

Using error diagrams, we quantify the forecasting of characteristic-earthquake occurrence in a recently introduced minimalist model. Initially we connect the earthquake alarm at a fixed time after the ocurrence of a characteristic event.…

The idea of curvature analysis has been widely used in subsurface structure interpretation from three-dimensional (3D) seismic data (e.g., fault/fracture detection and geomorphology delineation) by measuring the lateral changes in the…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-02-05 Haibin Di , Motaz Alfarraj , Ghassan AlRegib

Bayesian imaging inverse problems in astrophysics and cosmology remain challenging, particularly in low-data regimes, due to complex forward operators and the frequent lack of well-motivated priors for non-Gaussian signals. In this paper,…

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We study an inverse random obstacle scattering problems in $\mathbb{R}^2$ where the scatterer is formulated by a Gaussian process defined on the angular parameter domain. Equipped with a modified covariance function which is mathematically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Zhiqi Sun , Xiang Xu , Yiwen Lin

Geophysical inverse problems are often ill-posed and admit multiple solutions. Conventional discriminative methods typically yield a single deterministic solution, which fails to model the posterior distribution, cannot generate diverse…

We present the development of extended diffraction tomography, a new approach to the solution of the linear seismic waveform inversion problem. This method has several appealing features, such as the use of arbitrary depth-dependent…

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Seismic data quality is vital to geophysical applications, so methods of data recovery, including denoising and interpolation, are common initial steps in the seismic data processing flow. We present a method to perform simultaneous…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 Lingchen Zhu , Entao Liu , James H. McClellan

The data-driven reduced order models (ROMs) have recently emerged as an efficient tool for the solution of the inverse scattering problems with applications to seismic and sonar imaging. One specification of this approach is that it…

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Light scattering in disordered media plays an important role in various areas of applied science from biophysics to astronomy. In this paper we study two approaches to calculate scattering properties of semi-infinite densely packed media…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Sofia Ponomareva , Alexey A. Shcherbakov

Advances in data acquisition and numerical wave simulation have improved tomographic imaging techniques and results, but non-experts may find it difficult to understand which model is best for their needs. This paper is intended for these…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-01-27 Andreas Fichtner , Jeroen Ritsema , Solvi Thrastarson

Recent studies have shown that real-valued principal component analysis can be applied to earthquake fault systems for forecasting and prediction. In addition, theoretical analysis indicates that earthquake stresses may obey a wave-like…

We propose a Bayesian inference framework to estimate uncertainties in inverse scattering problems. Given the observed data, the forward model and their uncertainties, we find the posterior distribution over a finite parameter field…

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Electromagnetic wave scattering from planar dielectric films deposited on one-dimensional, randomly rough, perfectly conducting substrates is studied by numerical simulations for both p- and s-polarization. The reduced Rayleigh equation,…

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