Mitigating elastic effects in marine 3-D full-waveform inversion

1-D elastic waveform inversion: A divide-and-conquer approach

Subsurface rock properties are manifested in seismic records as variations in traveltimes, amplitudes, and waveforms. It is commonly acknowledged that traveltimes are sensitive to the long wavelength part of the velocity, whereas amplitudes are sensitive to the short wavelength part of the velocity. The inherent sensitivity of seismic velocity at different wavelengths suggests an approach that ...

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 ...

Effects of surface scattering in full-waveform inversion

In full-waveform inversion of seismic body waves, often the free surface is ignored on grounds of computational efficiency.Asynthetic study was performed to investigate the effects of this simplification. In terms of size and frequency, the test model and data conform to a real long-offset survey of the upper crust across the San Andreas fault. Random fractal variations are superimposed on a ba...

3D acoustic frequency-domain full-waveform inversion

We present one of the first attempt at implementing a massively parallel frequency-domain full-waveform inversion algorithm for imaging 3D acoustic media. The inverse method is based on a classic steepest-descent algorithm. The algorithm was designed so that one or several frequencies are inverted at a time. Wave propagation modeling, a key component of the inversion algorithm, is performed wit...