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The back-and-forth method for the quadratic Wasserstein distance-based full-waveform inversion

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The conventional least-squares misfit function compares the synthetic data to the observed data in a point by point style. The Wasserstein distance function, also called optimal transport function, matches patterns.… Click to show full abstract

The conventional least-squares misfit function compares the synthetic data to the observed data in a point by point style. The Wasserstein distance function, also called optimal transport function, matches patterns. The kinematic information of a seismograms is therefore efficiently extracted. This property makes it more convex than the conventional least-squares function. Computing the 1D Wasserstein function is fast. Processing the 2D or 3D seismic data volume trace by trace, however, loses the inter-receiver coherency. The main difficulty of extending to high dimensional Wasserstein function is the heavy computation cost. This computational challenge can be alleviated by a back-and-forth method. After explaining the computation strategy and incorporating to full waveform inversion, we demonstrate the superior performances of the high dimensional Wasserstein function with a Camembert model and the Marmousi model. The superiority is also demonstrated with the Chevron 2014 blind test.

Keywords: function; full waveform; wasserstein; wasserstein distance; back forth; forth method

Journal Title: GEOPHYSICS
Year Published: 2023

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