Often exploration seismic data lacks low and high frequency band signals. The low frequency information provides crucial information about the mean model. Thus, estimation of absolute models using inversion schemes is difficult in case of band limited seismic data. We present a new method to synthesize initial model for inversion of seismic data using autoregressive and moving average modeling....

The inversion of seismic travel-time data for radially varying media was initially investigated by Herglotz, Wiechert, and Bateman (the HWB method) in the early part of the 20th century [1]. Tomographic inversions for laterally varying media began in seismology starting in the 1970's. This included early work by Aki, Christoffersson, and Husebye who developed an inversion technique for estimati...

In this paper, we are interested in determining the seismic velocity of a shallow under-ground layer from refraction traveltimes measures. We present a study case taken from an experimental seismic survey. The study case is a wide-angle seismic inversion using experimental traveltimes measures and based on ray tracing technique and genetic algorithms. The hypothesis on the velocity distribution...

Glacier dynamics are inextricably linked to the basal conditions of glaciers. Seismic reflection methods can image the glacier bed under certain conditions. However, where a seismically thin layer of material is present at the bed, traditional analyses may fail to fully characterize bed properties. We use a targeted full-waveform inversion algorithm to quantify the basal-layer parameters of a m...

The refraction inverse problem was initially investigated by Herglotz (1907), Bateman (1910), and Wiechert and Geiger (1910) who applied Abel transforms for the inversion of seismic travel-times in radially varying media. For smoothly varying media in the absence of low velocity zones, this formulation provides an inverse solution which includes ray bending. In the presence of low velocity zone...

S U M M A R Y We analyse radar interferometric and GPS observations of the displacement field from the 1995 July 30 Mw = 8.1 Antofagasta, Chile, earthquake and invert for the distribution of slip along the co-seismic fault plane. Using a fixed fault geometry, we compare the use of singular-value decomposition and constrained linear inversion to invert for the slip distribution and find that the...

Seismic exploration is one of the main geophysical methods to extract quantitative inferences about the Earth’s interior at different scales from the recording of seismic waves near the surface. Main applications are civil engineering for cavity detection and landslide characterization, site effect modelling for seismic hazard, CO2 sequestration and nuclearwaste storage, oil and gas exploration...

The inversion of seismic reflection data is challenging due to the oscillatory nature of the seismic data, the nonlinear relation between the data and the Earth’s model parameters, and the relative sensitivity of the different subsets of the data to the model parameters. Full-waveform inversion solves this inverse problem in the data space but is known to have shortcomings, especially because o...

This paper attacks the problem of seismic travel-time inversion using genetic algorithms. Seismic surveying is usually a precondition to engineering and construction work in an area and travel-time inversion is a method of deducing sub-surface features from the measured travel-times of seismic waves. We consider both the one-dimensional and two-dimensional versions of the problem and explore di...