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 …

Extending the search space of full-waveform inversion beyond the single-scattering Born approximation: A tutorial review

S Operto, A Gholami, H Aghamiry, G Guo, S Beller… - Geophysics, 2023 - library.seg.org
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) can be made immune to cycle skipping by matching the
recorded data with traveltime errors smaller than one-half period from inaccurate subsurface …

Deep-learning inversion of seismic data

S Li, B Liu, Y Ren, Y Chen, S Yang, Y Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
We propose a new method to tackle the mapping challenge from time-series data to spatial
image in the field of seismic exploration, ie, reconstructing the velocity model directly from …

Adaptive waveform inversion: Theory

M Warner, L Guasch - Geophysics, 2016 - library.seg.org
Conventional full-waveform seismic inversion attempts to find a model of the subsurface that
is able to predict observed seismic waveforms exactly; it proceeds by minimizing the …

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 …

Improving full-waveform inversion by wavefield reconstruction with the alternating direction method of multipliers

HS Aghamiry, A Gholami, S Operto - Geophysics, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an iterative nonlinear waveform matching procedure
subject to wave-equation constraint. FWI is highly nonlinear when the wave-equation …

Full-waveform inversion with extrapolated low-frequency data

YE Li, L Demanet - Geophysics, 2016 - library.seg.org
The availability of low-frequency data is an important factor in the success of full-waveform
inversion (FWI) in the acoustic regime. The low frequencies help determine the kinematically …

Integrating deep neural networks with full-waveform inversion: Reparameterization, regularization, and uncertainty quantification

W Zhu, K Xu, E Darve, B Biondi, GC Beroza - Geophysics, 2022 - library.seg.org
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an accurate imaging approach for modeling the velocity
structure by minimizing the misfit between recorded and predicted seismic waveforms …

Simultaneous inversion of the background velocity and the perturbation in full-waveform inversion

Z Wu, T Alkhalifah - Geophysics, 2015 - library.seg.org
The gradient of standard full-waveform inversion (FWI) attempts to map the residuals in the
data to perturbations in the model. Such perturbations may include smooth background …

A general approach to seismic inversion with automatic differentiation

W Zhu, K Xu, E Darve, GC Beroza - Computers & Geosciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Imaging Earth structure or seismic sources from seismic data involves minimizing a target
misfit function, and is commonly solved through gradient-based optimization. The adjoint …