• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.49-55
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• 2019

In this study, we presented a reference-shot subset method for stable convergence of full waveform inversion using a cyclic-shot subsampling technique. Full waveform inversion needs repetitive modeling of wave propagation and thus its calculation time increases as the number of sources increases. In order to reduce the computation time, we can use a cyclic-shot subsampling method; however, it makes the cost function oscillate in the early stage of the inversion and causes a problem in applying the convergence criteria. We introduced a method in which the cost function is calculated using a fixed reference-shot subset while updating the model parameters using the cyclic-shot subsampling method. Through the examples of full waveform inversion using the Marmousi velocity model, we confirmed that the convergence of cost function becomes stable even under the cyclic-shot subsampling method if using a reference-shot subset.