Velocity model building by 3D frequency-domain, full-waveform inversion of wide-aperture seismic data

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...

FWT2D: A massively parallel program for frequency-domain full-waveform tomography of wide-aperture seismic data - Part 1: Algorithm

This is the first paper in a two-part series that describes a massively parallel code that performs 2D frequency-domain full-waveform inversion of wide-aperture seismic data for imaging complex structures. Full waveform inversion methods, namely quantitative seismic imaging methods based on the resolution of the full wave equation, are computationally expensive. Therefore, designing efficient a...

Discretized Adjoint State Time and Frequency Domain Full Waveform Inversion: A Comparative Study

This study derives the discretized adjoint states full waveform inversion (FWI) in both time and frequency domains based on the Lagrange multiplier method. To achieve this, we applied adjoint state inversion on the discretized wave equation in both time domain and frequency domain. Besides, in this article, we introduce reliability tests to show that the inversion is performing as it should be ...

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...

Pre-stack full waveform inversion of ultra-high-frequency marine seismic reflection data