Nonlinear slope tomography: a versatile data- and challenge-driven velocity model building technique

Most recent depth seismic imaging studies involve both full-wave and ray-based methods as the resolution of complex ill-posed problems often require a wide range of tools. Also ray based methods suffer from well-known drawbacks, they will provide accurate results in most of the cases. Moreover, relying on nonlinear slope tomography, a challenge-driven approach can be designed for each problem by incorporating prior or external information as needed. Here we propose to show such examples of the challenge-driven approach.