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http://dx.doi.org/10.7582/GGE.2013.16.4.211

Application of Effective Regularization to Gradient-based Seismic Full Waveform Inversion using Selective Smoothing Coefficients  

Park, Yunhui (Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Inha University)
Pyun, Sukjoon (Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Inha University)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.16, no.4, 2013 , pp. 211-216 More about this Journal
Abstract
In general, smoothing filters regularize functions by reducing differences between adjacent values. The smoothing filters, therefore, can regularize inverse solutions and produce more accurate subsurface structure when we apply it to full waveform inversion. If we apply a smoothing filter with a constant coefficient to subsurface image or velocity model, it will make layer interfaces and fault structures vague because it does not consider any information of geologic structures and variations of velocity. In this study, we develop a selective smoothing regularization technique, which adapts smoothing coefficients according to inversion iteration, to solve the weakness of smoothing regularization with a constant coefficient. First, we determine appropriate frequencies and analyze the corresponding wavenumber coverage. Then, we define effective maximum wavenumber as 99 percentile of wavenumber spectrum in order to choose smoothing coefficients which can effectively limit the wavenumber coverage. By adapting the chosen smoothing coefficients according to the iteration, we can implement multi-scale full waveform inversion while inverting multi-frequency components simultaneously. Through the successful inversion example on a salt model with high-contrast velocity structures, we can note that our method effectively regularizes the inverse solution. We also verify that our scheme is applicable to field data through the numerical example to the synthetic data containing random noise.
Keywords
regularization; smoothing; full waveform inversion; gradient; multi-scale;
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