Quantifying uncertainty of salt body shapes recovered from gravity data using trans-dimensional Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling

X Wei, J Sun, MK Sen - Geophysical Journal International, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Accurate delineation of salt body shapes is critical for hydrocarbon exploration. Various
imaging methods based on seismic data have been developed. Due to the density contrast …

A deep Gaussian process model for seismicity background rates

JB Muir, ZE Ross - Geophysical Journal International, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The spatio-temporal properties of seismicity give us incisive insight into the stress state
evolution and fault structures of the crust. Empirical models based on self-exciting point …

Physically structured variational inference for Bayesian full waveform inversion

X Zhao, A Curtis - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Full waveform inversion (FWI) creates high resolution models of the Earth's subsurface
structures from seismic waveform data. Due to the non‐linearity and non‐uniqueness of FWI …

Bayesian inversion, uncertainty analysis and interrogation using boosting variational inference

X Zhao, A Curtis - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Geoscientists use observed data to estimate properties of the Earth's interior. This often
requires non‐linear inverse problems to be solved and uncertainties to be estimated …

Uncertainty quantification for regularized inversion of electromagnetic geophysical data—part I: motivation and theory

D Blatter, M Morzfeld, K Key… - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present a method for computing a meaningful uncertainty quantification (UQ) for
regularized inversion of electromagnetic (EM) geophysical data that combines the …

Calculating sensitivity or gradient for geophysical inverse problems using automatic and implicit differentiation

L Liu, B Yang, Y Zhang, Y Xu, Z Peng, D Yang - Computers & Geosciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Automatic differentiation (AD) is a valuable computing technique that can automatically
calculate the derivative of a function. Using the chain rule and algebraic manipulations, AD …

Appropriate reduction of the posterior distribution in fully Bayesian inversions

DSK Sato, Y Fukahata, Y Nozue - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Bayesian inversion generates a posterior distribution of model parameters from an
observation equation and prior information both weighted by hyperparameters. The prior is …

Reconstruction of multiple target bodies using trans-dimensional Bayesian inversion with different constraints

X Wei, J Sun, MK Sen - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Geophysical geometry inversion aims to reconstruct the geometrical characteristics of
subsurface target bodies, which is different from conventional inversion techniques that …

A two-dimensional magnetotelluric deep learning inversion approach based on improved Dense Convolutional Network

N Yu, C Wang, H Chen, W Kong - Computers & Geosciences, 2025 - Elsevier
Magnetotelluric (MT) inversion is an important means of MT data interpretation. The use of
deep learning technology for MT inversion has attracted much attention because it is not …

2-D probabilistic inversion of MT data and uncertainty quantification using the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo method

R Peng, B Han, X Hu, J Li, Y Liu - Geophysical Journal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Bayesian methods provide a valuable framework for rigorously quantifying the model
uncertainty arising from the inherent non-uniqueness in the magnetotelluric (MT) inversion …