Efficient electric resistivity inversion using adjoint state of mixed finite-element method for Poisson's equation (Q2490279)

In the present paper the authors propose an electric resistivity inversion method that is similar to the reverse time migration technique applied to seismic data. After introducing a governing equation which is used for electric resistivity modeling, the authors develop the steepest descent method on the basis of a matrix formalism of the Poisson equation. In the last part of the paper there are generated subsurface images by using the proposed algorithm for several block-anomaly models with a dipole-dipole array.