Multiscale full-waveform inversion based on shot subsampling

Autor: Cai-Wang Shi, Bing-Shou He
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Applied Geophysics. 15:261-270
ISSN: 1993-0658
1672-7975
DOI: 10.1007/s11770-018-0669-6
Popis: Conventional full-waveform inversion is computationally intensive because it considers all shots in each iteration. To tackle this, we establish the number of shots needed and propose multiscale inversion in the frequency domain while using only the shots that are positively correlated with frequency. When using low-frequency data, the method considers only a small number of shots and raw data. More shots are used with increasing frequency. The random-in-group subsampling method is used to rotate the shots between iterations and avoid the loss of shot information. By reducing the number of shots in the inversion, we decrease the computational cost. There is no crosstalk between shots, no noise addition, and no observational limits. Numerical modeling suggests that the proposed method reduces the computing time, is more robust to noise, and produces better velocity models when using data with noise.
Databáze: OpenAIRE