Next-generation seismic experiments: wide-angle, multi-azimuth, three-dimensional, full-waveform inversion

Reflection Full Waveform Inversion for a Wide- azimuth Dataset in the Gulf of Mexico

Inversion of seismic refraction and wide-angle reflection traveltimes for three-dimensional layered crustal structure

We present a method for the determination of crustal structure by simultaneous inversion of seismic refraction and wide-angle reflection traveltimes for 3-D interface geometry and layer velocity. Crustal structure is represented by layers in which velocity varies linearly with depth, separated by smooth interfaces with a cubic B-spline parametrization. Lateral variations in structure are theref...

Full waveform inversion of crosswell seismic data using automatic differentiation

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is an effective and efficient data-fitting technique that has been widely used to produce accurate estimation of model parameters in Geophysics. The efficiency and accuracy of FWI are determined by the three main components: numerical solution for forward problem, gradient calculation and model update which usually involves the optimization method. The success of t...

Full waveform seismic inversion using a distributed system of computers

The aim of seismic waveform inversion is to estimate the elastic properties of the Earth’s subsurface layers from recordings of seismic waveform data. This is usually accomplished by using constrained optimization often based on very simplistic assumptions. Full waveform inversion uses a more accurate wave propagation model but is extremely difficult to use for routine analysis and interpretati...

A numerically exact local solver applied to salt boundary inversion in seismic full-waveform inversion

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