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Comparison of frequency-band selection strategies for 2D time-domain acoustic waveform inversion

XIAONA MA1,2 ,  ZHIYUAN LI1 ,  SHANHUI XU1 ,  PEI KE3 ,  GUANGHE LIANG1
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Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, P.R. China. maxiaona@mail.iggcas.ac.cn,
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P.R. China.,
BGP Inc., China National Petroleum Corporation, Hebei Zhuozhou 072751, P.R. China.,
JSE 2017, 26(6), 499–519;
Submitted: 13 January 2017 | Accepted: 3 October 2017 | Published: 1 December 2017
© 2017 by the Authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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Ma, X., Li, Z., Xu, S., Ke, P. and Liang, G., 2017. Comparison of frequency-band selection strategies for 2D time domain acoustic waveform inversion. Journal of Seismic Exploration, 26: 499-519. Full waveform inversion (FWD is a promising model-building technology to recover subsurface information. However, it is easy to fall into local minima when applying this method because of the lack of a low-frequency component in seismic data. To mitigate this problem, multi-scale method for the time domain has been proposed. With this method, we perform the inversion sequentially from low- to high-frequency groups, and we set the velocity model inverted at the previous scale as an initial velocity model for the next higher frequency group. In this study, we mainly compare several frequency-band selection strategies for FWI in time domain, including individual-grouping methods 1 and 2, along with Bunks’ method. To verify and compare the efficiency of the above three methods, we introduce the partial-overlap and arbitrary-two grouping methods. Numerical examples for synthetic data of the Marmousi velocity model, as well as noisy data, demonstrate that multiscale inversion can attain encouraging resolution. Compared to solutions from other methods, we highlight the individual-grouping method 2 which can yield a more satisfactory velocity model. Also, numerical results imply that low frequencies are necessary in full waveform inversion.

Keywords
full waveform inversion
time-domain multiscale method
frequency-band selection strategies
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