Interparameter trade-off quantification and reduction in isotropic-elastic full-waveform inversion: Synthetic experiments and Hussar land data set application

W Pan, Y Geng, KA Innanen - Geophysical Journal International, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The problem of inverting for multiple physical parameters in the subsurface using seismic full-
waveform inversion (FWI) is complicated by interparameter trade-off arising from inherent …

Elastic full-waveform inversion and parametrization analysis applied to walk-away vertical seismic profile data for unconventional (heavy oil) reservoir characterization

W Pan, KA Innanen, Y Geng - Geophysical Journal International, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) methods hold strong potential to recover multiple
subsurface elastic properties for hydrocarbon reservoir characterization. Simultaneously …

Multiparameter seismic elastic full-waveform inversion with combined geophone and shaped fiber-optic cable data

MV Eaid, SD Keating, KA Innanen - Geophysics, 2020 - library.seg.org
Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is a rapidly growing technology for seismic acquisition,
with the potential to sample rarely available wavefield components in reservoir settings. How …

SeisFlows—Flexible waveform inversion software

RT Modrak, D Borisov, M Lefebvre, J Tromp - Computers & geosciences, 2018 - Elsevier
SeisFlows is an open source Python package that provides a customizable waveform
inversion workflow and framework for research in oil and gas exploration, earthquake …

Compensating Q effects in viscoelastic media by adjoint-based least-squares reverse time migration

P Guo, GA McMechan - Geophysics, 2018 - library.seg.org
Low values of P-and S-wave quality factors Q p and Q s result in strong intrinsic seismic
attenuation in seismic modeling and imaging. We use a linearized waveform inversion …

Advances in stress-wave nondestructive testing methods for evaluation of deep foundations

A Kordjazi, JT Coe, S Mahvelati - DFI Journal-The Journal of the …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Stress-wave based nondestructive testing (NDT) systems such as cross-hole sonic logging
(CSL), low strain integrity testing, and ultrasonic echo devices (eg Sonicaliper) are routinely …

A parameterization analysis for acoustic full-waveform inversion of sub-wavelength anomalies

P Bharadwaj, W Mulder, G Drijkoningen - arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.01184, 2018 - arxiv.org
In the case of multi-parameter full-waveform inversion, the computation of the additional
Hessian terms that contain derivatives with respect to more than one type of parameter is …

Towards anisotropic and anelastic global adjoint models: Improving measurements and parametrization for global full-waveform inversion

R Örsvuran - 2021 - theses.hal.science
Seismic waves are our primary tools to see the Earth's interior and draw inferences on its
structural, thermal and chemical properties. Seismic tomography, similar to medical …

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF UNKNOWN FOUNDATION GEOMETRY USING FULL WAVEFORM INVERSION OF SURFACE WAVES

S Mahvelati, JT Coe - Symposium on the Application of Geophysics …, 2018 - library.seg.org
As interest in foundation reuse increases, there has been renewed emphasis on
methodologies to characterize existing foundations for determination of unknown geometry …