Full waveform inversion of a 3-D source inside an artificial rock

Automating Seismic Waveform Analysis For Full 3-D Waveform Inversions

Image-guided full waveform inversion

Multiple problems, including high computational cost, spurious local minima, and solutions with no geologic sense, have prevented widespread application of full waveform inversion (FWI), especially FWI of seismic reflections. These problems are fundamentally related to a large number of model parameters and to the absence of low frequencies in recorded seismograms. Instead of inverting for all ...

A projected Hessian for full waveform inversion

A Hessian matrix in full waveform inversion (FWI) is difficult to compute directly because of high computational cost and an especially large memory requirement. Therefore, Newton-like methods are rarely feasible in realistic largesize FWI problems. We modify the BFGS method to use a projected Hessian matrix that reduces both the computational cost and memory required, thereby making a quasiNew...

Discretized Adjoint State Time and Frequency Domain Full Waveform Inversion: A Comparative Study

This study derives the discretized adjoint states full waveform inversion (FWI) in both time and frequency domains based on the Lagrange multiplier method. To achieve this, we applied adjoint state inversion on the discretized wave equation in both time domain and frequency domain. Besides, in this article, we introduce reliability tests to show that the inversion is performing as it should be ...

Source synthesis for waveform inversion

Seismologists have long used extended sources, both physical and synthetic, to enhance the effectiveness of data acquisition and processing in various ways. Recently, extended synthetic sources have been suggested as a means to to substantially reduce the computational complexity of waveform inversion. Most proposed synthetic sources for waveform inversion are random in some way. In contrast, I...