An overview of full-waveform inversion in exploration geophysics

By Jean Virieux, Stéphane Operto. 2009

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Subfields: Geophysics, Ocean Engineering

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Which parameterization is suitable for acoustic vertical transverse isotropic full waveform inversion? Part 1: Sensitivity and trade-off analysis (2013, methodology): “The FWI method seeks to exploit the full information content of the seismic wavefield recorded over a broad range of incidence angles, to build subsurface models with a broad wavenumber content (Virieux and Operto, 2009).”
An optimal transport approach for seismic tomography: application to 3D full waveform inversion (2016, methodology): “A review of FWI and its application is provided in (Virieux and Operto 2009).”
Deep-learning inversion: a next generation seismic velocity-model building method (2019, methodology): “Typically, FWI is a data-fitting procedure used in reconstructing high-resolution velocity models of the subsurface, as well as other parameters that govern wave propagation, from the full information contained in seismic data (Virieux and Operto, 2009; Operto et al., 2013).”
Fast 3D frequency-domain full-waveform inversion with a parallel block low-rank multifrontal direct solver: Application to OBC data from the North Sea (2016, methodology): “in the time domain or in the frequency domain (e.g., Plessix, 2007; Vigh and Starr, 2008b; Virieux and Operto, 2009).”
Adaptive waveform inversion: Theory (2014, background): “…Mancini et al., 2015), and its widening uptake across the industry (Kapoor et al., 2013), current implementations of FWI suffer from significant shortcomings; most prominent among these is the problem of local minima in the objective function produced by cycle skipping (Virieux and Operto, 2009).”
Full-waveform inversion via source-receiver extension (2017, methodology): “Full-waveform inversion (FWI) estimates subsurface structure with high precision by minimizing the differences between the synthesized and recorded data in the least-squares sense (Tarantola, 1984; Virieux and Operto, 2009).”
Full Seismic Waveform Modelling and Inversion (2011, neutral): “For an extensive review of full waveform inversion, the reader is referred to Virieux & Operto (2009).”
Combining full wavefield migration and full waveform inversion, a glance into the future of seismic imaging (2012, background): “Redistribution subject to SEG license or copyright; see Terms of Use at http://segdl.org/ matches the recorded measurements (see overview Virieux and Operto, 2009).”