On numerical solution of joint inverse geophysical problems with structural constraints

Malovichko M.S., Petrov I.B.
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Inverse geophysical problems are difficult to solve due to their mathematically incorrect formulation and large computational complexity. Geophysical exploration in frontier areas is even more complicated due to the lack of reliable geological information. In this case, inversion methods that allow interpretation of several types of geophysical data together are recognized to be of major importance. This paper is dedicated to one of such inversion methods, which is based on minimization of the determinant of the Gram matrix for a set of model vectors. Within the framework of this approach, we minimize a nonlinear functional, which consists of squared norms of data residual of different types, the sum of stabilizing functionals and a term that measures the structural similarity between different model vectors. We apply this approach to seismic and electromagnetic synthetic data set. Specifically, we study joint inversion of acoustic pressure response together with controlled-source electrical field imposing structural constraints on resulting electrical conductivity and P-wave velocity distributions.

We start off this note with the problem formulation and present the numerical method for inverse problem. We implemented the conjugate-gradient algorithm for non-linear optimization. The efficiency of our approach is demonstrated in numerical experiments, in which the true 3D electrical conductivity model was assumed to be known, but the velocity model was constructed during inversion of seismic data. The true velocity model was based on a simplified geology structure of a marine prospect. Synthetic seismic data was used as an input for our minimization algorithm. The resulting velocity model not only fit to the data but also has structural similarity with the given conductivity model. Our tests have shown that optimally chosen weight of the Gramian term may improve resolution of the final models considerably.

Keywords: joint inversion, electrical prospecting, seismic exploration
Citation in English: Malovichko M.S., Petrov I.B. On numerical solution of joint inverse geophysical problems with structural constraints // Computer Research and Modeling, 2020, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 329-343
Citation in English: Malovichko M.S., Petrov I.B. On numerical solution of joint inverse geophysical problems with structural constraints // Computer Research and Modeling, 2020, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 329-343
DOI: 10.20537/2076-7633-2020-12-2-329-343
URL: http://crm-en.ics.org.ru/journal/article/2912/
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