Abstract
Locating the source of a passively recorded seismic event is still a challenging problem, especially when the velocity is unknown. Many imaging approaches to focus the image do not address the velocity issue and result in images plagued with illumination artifacts. We develop a waveform inversion approach with an additional penalty term in the objective function to reward the focusing of the source image. This penalty term is relaxed early to allow for data fitting, and avoid cycle skipping, using an extended source. At the later stages the focusing of the image dominates the inversion allowing for high resolution source and velocity inversion. We also compute the source location explicitly and numerical tests show that we obtain good estimates of the source locations with this approach.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | 79th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2017 |
| Publisher | EAGE Publications |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789462822177 |
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| State | Published - May 26 2017 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: We thank KAUST for its support and we thank the SWAG group for collaborative environment. We thank Guanghui Huang and Hanchen Wang for the useful discussions. For computer time, this research used the resources of the Supercomputing Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.