Seismic inversion and the data normalization for optimal transport

DOI10.4310/MAA.2019.V26.N2.A3zbMATH Open1436.49049arXiv1810.08686MaRDI QIDQ1985696FDOQ1985696

Yunan Yang, Björn Engquist

Publication date: 7 April 2020

Published in: Methods and Applications of Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Full waveform inversion (FWI) has recently become a favorite technique for the inverse problem of finding properties in the earth from measurements of vibrations of seismic waves on the surface. Mathematically, FWI is PDE constrained optimization where model parameters in a wave equation are adjusted such that the misfit between the computed and the measured dataset is minimized. In a sequence of papers, we have shown that the quadratic Wasserstein distance from optimal transport is to prefer as misfit functional over the standard $L^2$ norm. Datasets need however first to be normalized since seismic signals do not satisfy the requirements of optimal transport. There has been a puzzling contradiction in the results. Normalization methods that satisfy theorems pointing to ideal properties for FWI have not performed well in practical computations, and other scaling methods that do not satisfy these theorems have performed much better in practice. In this paper, we will shed light on this issue and resolve this contradiction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.08686

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zbMATH Keywords

optimizationoptimal transport[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=Monge-Amp%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDre+equation&go=Go Monge-Amp��re equation]seismic inversiondata normalization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Optimal transportation (49Q22) Inverse problems in geophysics (86A22) Inverse problems in optimal control (49N45) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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