Fast Full Wavefield Inversion of Cross-hole Tomographic Data Using Machine L earning Methods

Tue Holm-Jensen, Thomas Mejer Hansen

Abstract

Linear machine learning algorithms are used to perform a full-wavefield inversion of synthetic cross-hole tomographic data. A general method to invert geophysical data is proposed and tested on a specific problem of cross-hole tomography. A linear mapping is learned between a tomographic image and the resulting wavefield, so an analytical inversion is possible to obtain the posterior on the tomographic image. This has the advantage that it is extremely fast. The full wavefield is summarized by traveltime and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) reduction. The linear mapping is learned using ridge regression. The tomographic images are generated to show a channel structure and the wavefields are generated using finite-difference forward modeling. The method is shown to perform better than traditional linear ray inversion methods, both qualitatively in that the posterior means have a higher resolution and quantitatively in that there is a higher correlation coefficient between the posterior mean and the true value.

Original languageEnglish
Publication date1 Jun 2018
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2018
Event80th EAGE Annual Conference and Exhibition 2018 - Bella Center, København, Denmark
Duration: 10 Jun 201815 Jun 2018
https://events.eage.org/en/2018/eage-annual-2018

Conference

Conference80th EAGE Annual Conference and Exhibition 2018
LocationBella Center
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityKøbenhavn
Period10/06/201815/06/2018
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