Visco-acoustic full waveform inversion using decoupled fractional Laplacian constant-Q wave equation and optimal transport-based misfit function

Full waveform inversion (FWI) has been proven as an effective method to estimate subsurface parameters by iteratively reducing the data residual between the predictions and the observations. Nevertheless, FWI is greatly dependent on the initial model and a poor initial model will lead to a wrong solution. Furthermore, owing to the anelasticity of the earth, seismic waves will attenuate during propagation, which results in an attenuated gradient and makes the convergence rate of FWI even worse in viscoacoustic media. To mitigate these problems, we propose an improved method for multiparameter (e.g. velocity and Q) waveform inversion. Benefiting from the theory of Q-compensated wavefield propagation, we formulate a Q-compensated joint multiparameter waveform inversion method to weaken the nonlinearity of the FWI objective function, which enables it to cope with challenges related with attenuation-induced gradient energy loss and cycle skipping simultaneously. We refer to the proposed Q-compensated joint multiparameter FWI scheme as QJMFWI. The main contributions of QJMFWI are: (1) given the difficulty associated with the estimating of velocity and Q simultaneously in viscoacoustic media, QJMFWI provides a straightforward waveform inversion method for velocity and Q model construction, by which we can obtain velocity and Q information with improved accuracy and resolution; (2) compared with conventional FWI methods, QJMFWI relaxes the requirement for good initial velocity and Q model, which can avoid trapping into local minima. Numerical and field data examples demonstrate that QJMFWI is an effective method to invert for accurate subsurface parameters in viscoacoustic media.

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Visco-acoustic full waveform inversion using decoupled fractional Laplacian constant-Q wave equation and optimal transport-based misfit function

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