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… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) can be made immune to cycle skip** by matching the
recorded data with traveltime errors smaller than one-half period from inaccurate subsurface …

Refraction FWI of a circular shot OBN acquisition in the Brazilian pre-salt region

SLEF Da Silva, FT Costa, A Karsou… - … on Geoscience and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We develop a workflow based on the full-waveform inversion (FWI) to estimate P-wave
velocities in a deepwater Brazilian presalt field using the recently introduced circular shot …

Full waveform inversion and Lagrange multipliers

A Gholami, K Aghazade - Geophysical Journal International, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an effective method for imaging subsurface properties
using sparsely recorded data. It involves solving a wave propagation problem to estimate …

Time-domain extended-source full-waveform inversion: Algorithm and practical workflow

G Guo, S Operto, A Gholami, HS Aghamiry - Geophysics, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Extended-source full-waveform inversion (ES-FWI) first computes wavefields with data-
driven source extensions such that the simulated data in inaccurate velocity models match …

Full dispersion‐spectrum inversion of surface waves

Z Zhang, T Alkhalifah, Y Liu - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Nowadays, the most successful applications of full‐waveform inversion (FWI) involve marine
seismic data under acoustic approximations. Elastic FWI of land seismic data is still …

Full-waveform inversion by model extension: Practical applications

G Barnier, E Biondi, RG Clapp, B Biondi - Geophysics, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.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 …

High-resolution full waveform seismic imaging: Progresses, challenges, and prospects

D Yang, X Dong, J Huang, Z Fang, X Huang… - Science China Earth …, 2025 - Springer
Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a seismic imaging method with a unified mathematical
framework based on wave equation constraints. The FWI method can be used to generate a …

Target-oriented elastic full-waveform inversion through acoustic extended image-space redatuming

E Biondi, G Barnier, B Biondi, RG Clapp - Geophysics, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Elastic full-waveform inversion (FWI) can provide accurate and high-resolution subsurface
parameters. However, its high computational cost prevents the application of this method to …

GPU accelerated sparse curvelet-constrained wavefield reconstruction inversion with source estimation: Application to Chevron Benchmark 2014 blind test data set

Z Fang, H Wang - Geophysics, 2024 - library.seg.org
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a pivotal tool in seismic exploration and seismology but
encounters a persistent challenge known as “cycle-skip**,” causing it to frequently …

Seismic differential semblance-oriented migration velocity analysis—Status and the way forward

H Chauris, M Farshad - Geophysics, 2023 - library.seg.org
Differential semblance optimization (DSO) is a seismic waveform inversion approach. It has
been developed to remove the limitation of conventional full-waveform inversion as a …