Full-waveform inversion (FWI) has found great success in different geologic settings and has become a must-have tool for velocity model building (VMB), particularly in salt environments where geology and velocity are often highly complex. While still acoustic, FWI has already significantly improved salt models ...
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The benefits of elastic full-waveform inversion for subsurface imaging in North Sea shallow-water environments
The benefits of elastic full-waveform inversion for subsurface imaging in North Sea shallow-water environments
In areas of complex geology, strong impedance contrasts can generate highly elastic behavior leading to the breakdown of the acoustic assumption in FWI. In these cases, accurate Earth models cannot be obtained without considering the elastic wave equation. Many previous studies of elastic FWI ...
Accelerating Virtual Hearts, Revolutionizing Cardiac Science
Accelerating Virtual Hearts, Revolutionizing Cardiac Science
ELEM Biotech creates the fastest and most accurate virtual humans and virtual trials technology for the biomedical industry. Integrating its solutions in the development of new drugs and devices empowers companies to scale their capacity to test in human models, generate scientific evidence when ...
Advancing geologic document digitalization and information retrieval with generative AI
Advancing geologic document digitalization and information retrieval with generative AI
This paper demonstrates how generative artificial intelligence (AI) enhances geoscientific document processing by improving text analysis, table extraction, and figure classification.
Unlocking onshore imaging challenges with FWI: case studies from the Sultanate of Oman
Unlocking onshore imaging challenges with FWI: case studies from the Sultanate of Oman
This paper highlights recent progress and breakthroughs in land FWI with two examples from the Sultanate of Oman (one from the north and one from the south).
Detecting igneous rocks in the pre-salt with elastic FWI
Detecting igneous rocks in the pre-salt with elastic FWI
Brazilian pre-salt often exhibits geologically complex settings with many challenges for oil and gas exploration and production. One of these key challenges is the presence of igneous rocks. We analyze the ability of full-waveform inversion (FWI) to identify and detect this class of rock ...
FWI uncertainty analysis with Stein variational gradient descent
FWI uncertainty analysis with Stein variational gradient descent
Full waveform inversion (FWI) is becoming an increasingly dominant force in velocity model building and seismic imaging, often providing us with unrivaled focusing and resolution of the subsurface image. The superior velocity models and seismic images achieved through FWI also enable serious and more ...
Land FWI in the Sultanate of Oman: Challenges and advances on the road to high-resolution velocity
Land FWI in the Sultanate of Oman: Challenges and advances on the road to high-resolution velocity
Land seismic data in the Sultanate of Oman presents more and different challenges for full-waveform inversion (FWI) compared to marine data. This is mainly due to complex near-surface effects that create strong ground roll, which obscures already poor data quality, especially at lower frequencies ...
Reducing mapping ambiguity via visco-acoustic multi-azimuth dynamic resolution time-lag full-waveform inversion in offshore Senegal
Reducing mapping ambiguity via visco-acoustic multi-azimuth dynamic resolution time-lag full-waveform inversion in offshore Senegal
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) has demonstrated tremendous potential to provide high-resolution subsurface models. However, obtaining an accurate FWI velocity model can still be challenging in steep continental slope shelf geologic environments. The uncertainties, often caused by shallow abrupt velocity contrasts, limited diving-wave penetration depth, and ...