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Time domain full waveform inversion using a time-window and Huber function norm

MINKYUNG SON1 YOUNGSEO KIM2 CHANGSOO SHIN3 DONG-JOO MIN3
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1 Earthquake Research Center, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Seoul, South Korea.,
2 Department of Energy System Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.,
3 Research Institute of Energy and Resources, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.,
JSE 2013, 22(4), 311–338;
Submitted: 9 June 2025 | Revised: 9 June 2025 | Accepted: 9 June 2025 | Published: 9 June 2025
© 2025 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/ )
Abstract

Son, M., Kim, Y., Shin, C. and Min, D.-J., 2013. Time domain full waveform inversion using a time-window and Huber function norm. Journal of Seismic Exploration, 22: 311-338. To prevent the solution of full waveform inversion from converging to the local minimum, we present a full waveform inversion method with a data selection strategy using time-windows in the time domain. Adopting ideas from previous studies to mitigate the problem of local minima in the frequency domain full waveform inversion, we define the time-window to be associated with the highest amplitude of each observed trace. The time-window makes its corresponding data to be given greater weight in the calculation of the objective function. We apply also the Huber norm composed of a combination of /' and ? norms and use the approximated Hessian matrix both of which have been used in the frequency domain. The proposed algorithm is validated with two synthetic datasets and one real dataset. These include data from the simple anticline model, low-pass filtered data from the IFP Marmousi model, and data acquired from the Gulf of Mexico. We demonstrate that the inverted velocity models from the two synthetic datasets are in good agreement with the true models. In the real data example a reasonable velocity model is obtained which improves the reverse-time migration images.

Keywords
full waveform inversion
acoustic wave equation
local minimum
time-window
Huber norm
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