An upper-crust lid over the Long Valley magma chamber

E Biondi, W Zhu, J Li, EF Williams, Z Zhan - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Geophysical characterization of calderas is fundamental in assessing their potential for
future catastrophic volcanic eruptions. The mechanism behind the unrest of Long Valley …

A tutorial of image-domain least-squares reverse time migration through point-spread functions

W Zhang, J Gao - Geophysics, 2023 - library.seg.org
Least-squares reverse time migration (LSRTM) has shown great potential to improve the
amplitude fidelity and spatial resolution of a reverse time migration (RTM) image. However …

[HTML][HTML] Constrained non-linear AVO inversion based on the adjoint-state optimization

N Ahmed, WW Weibull, D Grana - Computers & Geosciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Pre-stack AVO inversion of seismic data is a modeling tool for estimating subsurface elastic
properties. Our focus is on the model-based inversion method where then unknown …

Full-waveform inversion by model extension: Practical applications

G Barnier, E Biondi, RG Clapp, B Biondi - Geophysics, 2023 - library.seg.org
Producing reliable acoustic subsurface velocity models still remains the main bottleneck of
the oil and gas industry's traditional imaging sequence. In complex geologic settings, the …

Constrained nonlinear amplitude-variation-with-offset inversion for reservoir dynamic changes estimation from time-lapse seismic data

N Ahmed, W Waldemar Weibull, D Grana, T Bhakta - Geophysics, 2024 - library.seg.org
We develop a novel elastic amplitude-variation-with-offset (AVO) inversion process to
estimate the fluid saturation and effective pressure or variations in these properties from time …

Enhanced Geological Prediction for Tunnel Excavation Using Full Waveform Inversion Integrating Sobolev Space Regularization with a Quadratic Penalty Method

J Li, J Takekawa, K Kurihara, KD Halim… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the process of tunnel excavation, advanced geological prediction technology has become
indispensable for safe, economical, and efficient tunnel construction. Although traditional …

Subspace Diffusion Posterior Sampling for Travel-Time Tomography

X Cao, X Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.17333, 2024 - arxiv.org
Diffusion models have been widely studied as effective generative tools for solving inverse
problems. The main ideas focus on performing the reverse sampling process conditioned on …

Opportunities for open-source software to accelerate research in applied geophysics

LJ Heagy, S Kang, J Capriotti, D Fournier… - The Leading …, 2024 - library.seg.org
The potential for open-source software and open-science practices to accelerate research in
applied geophysics and thereby contribute to solutions of geoscientific problems impacting …

Parallel Implementation of a Sensitivity Operator-Based Source Identification Algorithm for Distributed Memory Computers

A Penenko, E Rusin - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Large-scale inverse problems that require high-performance computing arise in various
fields, including regional air quality studies. The paper focuses on parallel solutions of an …

Pyseis: A high-performance, user-friendly Python package for GPU-accelerated seismic modeling and subsurface imaging

S Farris, G Barnier, E Biondi, R Clapp - SEG International Exposition …, 2023 - onepetro.org
Pyseis, a high-performance Python library, harnesses the power of low-level CUDA and C++
for computation, and provides a user-friendly Python interface for wave-equation modeling …