Seismic wavefield imaging of Earth's interior across scales

J Tromp - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2020 - nature.com
Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) for imaging Earth's interior was introduced in the late
1970s. Its ultimate goal is to use all of the information in a seismogram to understand the …

Individual and joint inversions of shallow-seismic rayleigh and love waves: full-waveform inversion versus random-objective waveform inversion

Y Pan, L Gao - Surveys in Geophysics, 2023 - Springer
Shallow-seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) provides an effective way for the accurate
reconstruction of near-surface models. The common 2D shallow-seismic FWI inverts either …

Anisotropic 3D full-waveform inversion

M Warner, A Ratcliffe, T Nangoo, J Morgan, A Umpleby… - Geophysics, 2013 - library.seg.org
We have developed and implemented a robust and practical scheme for anisotropic 3D
acoustic full-waveform inversion (FWI). We demonstrate this scheme on a field data set …

An introduction to full waveform inversion

J Virieux, A Asnaashari, R Brossier… - Encyclopedia of …, 2017 - library.seg.org
Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a high-resolution seismic imaging technique that is based
on using the entire content of seismic traces for extracting physical parameters of the …

Efficient 3-D frequency-domain mono-parameter full-waveform inversion of ocean-bottom cable data: application to Valhall in the visco-acoustic vertical transverse …

S Operto, A Miniussi, R Brossier… - Geophysical Journal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Computationally efficient 3-D frequency-domain full waveform inversion (FWI) is applied to
ocean-bottom cable data from the Valhall oil field in the visco-acoustic vertical transverse …

Total variation regularization strategies in full-waveform inversion

E Esser, L Guasch, T van Leeuwen, AY Aravkin… - SIAM Journal on Imaging …, 2018 - SIAM
We propose an extended full-waveform inversion formulation that includes general convex
constraints on the model. Though the full problem is highly nonconvex, the overarching …

Seismic waveform inversion best practices: regional, global and exploration test cases

R Modrak, J Tromp - Geophysical Journal International, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Reaching the global minimum of a waveform misfit function requires careful choices about
the nonlinear optimization, preconditioning and regularization methods underlying an …

Time domain viscoelastic full waveform inversion

G Fabien-Ouellet, E Gloaguen… - Geophysical Journal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Viscous attenuation can have a strong impact on seismic wave propagation, but it is rarely
taken into account in full waveform inversion (FWI). When viscoelasticity is considered in …

Hybrid-domain simultaneous-source full waveform inversion without crosstalk noise

Q Zhang, W Mao, H Zhou, H Zhang… - Geophysical Journal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Simultaneous-source method is usually adopted, as one of the most efficient ways, to reduce
the computation cost of full waveform inversion (FWI). Unfortunately, this method is facing …

Full wavefield inversion with multiples: Nonlinear Bayesian inverse multiple scattering theory beyond the Born approximation

X Huang - Geophysics, 2023 - library.seg.org
Imaging earth's structures is fundamental to the earth's interior, yet how to reconstruct earth's
heterogeneities using full-waveform inversion of full wavefield data that includes primary …