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Structure-based geophysical inversion using implicit geological models

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Andrea Balza-Morales *
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Aaron Förderer
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Florian Wellmann
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Hansruedi Maurer
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Florian Wagner
DOI:10.1093/gji/ggaf445delete
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Interpreting geophysical inversion results across diverse applications presents significant challenges, particularly when the resulting images lack distinct, sharp interfaces. Incorporating prior information to constrain the inversion process introduces additional complexity, especially when this prior information itself contains uncertainties. This work explores methods for improving the geometric representation of geologic structures using integrated geophysical and geologic models. While many existing approaches are either data-driven or model-driven techniques, they often fail to fully integrate available data into a dynamic, unified geomodel. We present an approach that integrates geologic models and geophysical data through structure-based inversion. Our approach preserves geological realism through an implicit model while imaging sharp contrasts within the geophysical inversion models. To address the ambiguities of solving for both the geometry and physical parameters, we adopt a sequential inversion process, first resolving shifts of geologic interfaces, then inverting for geophysical parameters using the updated geometry as a structural constraint. The method’s efficacy is demonstrated through cross-hole traveltime tomography using two synthetic and one field data set from the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory. The field data results validate the capability of our approach to recover subsurface interface geometries from geophysical data that are comparable to the interpolated interfaces from borehole data. While we demonstrate the method for seismic traveltime data in cross-hole geometry, the flexible open-source implementation allows application to 3-D scenarios and other geophysical methods.

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Geophysical Journal International cover
Geophysical Journal International
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RWTH Aachen University
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