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 …

Robust and efficient waveform-based velocity-model building by optimal transport in the pseudotime domain: Methodology

G Provenzano, R Brossier, L Métivier - Geophysics, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) aims at a broadband reconstruction of the subsurface
physical properties by fitting the entire recorded wavefield. In realistic exploration seismic …

Localized adaptive waveform inversion: Theory and numerical verification

P Yong, R Brossier, L Métivier… - Geophysical Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Correctly interpreting phase events thanks to data processing techniques based on
correlation or deconvolution has been the focus of numerous studies in the field of high …

Least-squares reverse time migration of simultaneous sources with deep-learning-based denoising

B Wu, G Yao, X Ma, H Chen, D Wu, J Cao - Geophysics, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Least-squares reverse time migration (LSRTM) is currently one of the most advanced
migration imaging techniques in the field of geophysics. It uses least-squares inversion to fit …

Full waveform inversion using a high-dimensional local-coherence misfit function

Y Yu, J Yang, J Huang, W Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional full-waveform seismic inversion (FWI) tries to estimate a subsurface model that
can accurately predict surface records by minimizing an-norm misfit between observed and …

Structurally constrained initial impedance modeling for poststack seismic inversion

Y Zhang, H Zhou, M Zhang, Y Wang… - … on Geoscience and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The establishment of the initial subsurface model is a crucial step for seismic inversion. An
accurate and reasonable initial model can mitigate the ill-posedness of seismic inversion …

First-arrival traveltime tomography with near-surface structural regularization

Y Wo, HW Zhou, Z Zou, Y Yue - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In complex near-surface geologic settings, first-arrival traveltime tomography suffers from
strong data noise and uneven raypath coverage. To reduce the inversion nonuniqueness …

[PDF][PDF] An immersed boundary method with iterative symmetric interpolation for irregular surface topography in seismic wavefield modelling

X Li, G Yao, F Niu, D Wu - Journal of Geophysics and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The irregular free surface topography has a significant impact on simulations of seismic
wave propagation. Therefore, an accurate representation of the irregular free surface is …

Full-Waveform Inversion with Denoising Priors Based on Graph Space Sinkhorn Distance

Z Tan, G Yao, F Zhang, D Wu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a critical geophysical imaging technique, renowned for its
ability to generate high-precision subsurface structural models. However, FWI is a highly …

Sparsity-promoting multiparameter pseudoinverse Born inversion in acoustic media

M Farshad, H Chauris - Geophysics, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Least-squares reverse time migration (RTM) has become the method of choice for
quantitative seismic imaging. The main drawback of such a scheme is that it requires many …