Volume source-based extended waveform inversion

Guanghui Huang

doi:10.1190/GEO2017-0330.1

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Volume source-based extended waveform inversion

2018-09-01

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Guanghui Huang *

Rami Nammour

William W. Symes

DOI：10.1190/GEO2017-0330.1

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Full-waveform inversion (FWI) faces the persistent challenge of cycle skipping, which can result in stagnation of the iterative methods at uninformative models with poor data fit. Extended reformulations of FWI avoid cycle skipping through adding auxiliary parameters to the model so that a good data fit can be maintained throughout the inversion process. The volume-based matched source waveform inversion algorithm introduces source parameters by relaxing the location constraint of source energy: It is permitted to spread in space, while being strictly localized at time t = 0. The extent of source energy spread is penalized by weighting the source energy with distance from the survey source location. For transmission data geometry (crosswell, diving wave, etc.) and transparent (nonreflecting) acoustic models, this penalty function is stable with respect to the data-frequency content, unlike the standard FWI objective. We conjecture that the penalty function is actually convex over much larger region in model space than is the FWI objective. Several synthetic examples support this conjecture and suggest that the theoretical limitation to pure transmission is not necessary: The inversion method can converge to a solution of the inverse problem in the absence of low-frequency data from an inaccurate initial velocity model even when reflections and refractions are present in the data along with transmitted energy.

Keywords:

DIFFERENTIAL SEMBLANCE OPTIMIZATION

AUTOMATIC VELOCITY ANALYSIS

NONLINEAR LEAST-SQUARES

CROSS-WELL TOMOGRAPHY

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