A review on reflection-waveform inversion

G Yao, D Wu, SX Wang - Petroleum Science, 2020 - Springer
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) utilizes optimization methods to recover an optimal Earth
model to best fit the observed seismic record in a sense of a predefined norm. Since FWI …

A review on the systematic formulation of 3-D multiparameter full waveform inversion in viscoelastic medium

P Yang, R Brossier, L Métivier… - Geophysical Journal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we study 3-D multiparameter full waveform inversion (FWI) in viscoelastic
media based on the generalized Maxwell/Zener body including arbitrary number of …

Measuring the misfit between seismograms using an optimal transport distance: Application to full waveform inversion

L Métivier, R Brossier, Q Mérigot… - … Supplements to the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Full waveform inversion using the conventional L 2 distance to measure the misfit between
seismograms is known to suffer from cycle skip**. An alternative strategy is proposed in …

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 …

An optimal transport approach for seismic tomography: Application to 3D full waveform inversion

L Métivier, R Brossier, Q Merigot, E Oudet… - Inverse …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The use of optimal transport distance has recently yielded significant progress in image
processing for pattern recognition, shape identification, and histograms matching. In this …

Salt structure elastic full waveform inversion based on the multiscale signed envelope

G Chen, W Yang, Y Liu, H Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Building high-fidelity velocity models for salt structures is a valuable and difficult problem in
seismic exploration. Acoustic-based full-waveform inversion (FWI) methods usually produce …

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 …

Impedance inversion by using the low-frequency full-waveform inversion result as an a priori model

S Yuan, S Wang, Y Luo, W Wei, G Wang - Geophysics, 2019 - library.seg.org
Prestack acoustic full-waveform inversion (FWI) can provide long-wavelength components of
the P-wave velocity by using low frequencies and long-offset direct/diving/refracted waves …

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 time-domain preconditioned truncated Newton approach to visco-acoustic multiparameter full waveform inversion

P Yang, R Brossier, L Métivier, J Virieux… - SIAM Journal on Scientific …, 2018 - SIAM
A truncated Newton (TRN) method for time-domain full waveform inversion (FWI) in a visco-
acoustic medium has been developed based on the 2nd-order adjoint state formulation …