A robust full-waveform inversion based on a shifted correlation of the envelope of wavefields
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Conference PaperKAUST Department
Earth Science and Engineering ProgramPhysical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Seismic Wave Analysis Group
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2018-08-27Online Publication Date
2018-08-27Print Publication Date
2018-08-27Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/631149
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The standard full waveform inversion (FWI) attempts to minimize the difference between the observed and modeled data. When the initial velocity is kinematically accurate, FWI often converges to to the best velocity model, usually of a high-resolution nature. However, when the modeled data using an initial velocity is far from the observed data, conventional local gradient based methods converge to a solution near the initial velocity instead of the global minimum. This is also known as the cycle skipping problem, which results in a zero correlation when observed and modeled data are not correlated. To reduce the cycle-skipping problem, we can compare the envelope of the modeled and observed data instead of the original data. However, when the initial velocity is not good enough, the correlation of the envelope of the modeled and observed data do not contribute accurately to the gradient. To mitigate this issue, we suggest to maximize not only the zero-lag correlation of the envelope but also the non-zero-lag correlation of the envelope. A weighting function, which has its maximum value at zero lag and decays away from zero lag, is proposed to balance the role of the lags. The resulting objective function is less sensitive to the choice of the maximum lag allowed and has a wider radius of convergence compared to standard FWI and envelope inversions. The implementation has the same computational complexity as conventional FWI as the only difference in the calculation is related to the modified adjoint source. We implement this algorithm on the AMD GPU based on OPENCL and obtained about a 14 fold speed up compared to a CPU implementation based on OPENMP. At last, several numerical examples are shown to demonstrate the proper convergence of the proposed method. Application to the Marmousi model shows that this method converges starting with a linearly increasing velocity model, even with data free of frequencies below 3 Hz.Citation
Wu Z, Alonaizi F, Alkhalifah T, Zhang Z, Almalki M (2018) A robust full-waveform inversion based on a shifted correlation of the envelope of wavefields. SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2018. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/segam2018-2991067.1.Sponsors
We thank KAUST for its support and we thank the SWAG group for collaborative environment. The numerical experiments were performed on the super computer SANAM, which is hosted by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. We also thank the support team of SANAM for their useful help.Publisher
Society of Exploration GeophysicistsConference/Event name
88th Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting, SEG 2018Additional Links
https://library.seg.org/doi/10.1190/segam2018-2991067.1ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1190/segam2018-2991067.1