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GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
Volume 224, Issue 1, Pages 306-311Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggaa459
Keywords
Inverse theory; Waveform inversion; Computational seismology; Seismic tomography
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- European Research Council (ERC) under the EU's Horizon 2020 Framework Programme [714069]
- Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) [c13, s868]
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We propose a new approach to full-waveform inversion that allows for continuous assimilation of growing data volumes without the need to reinvert all data. Specifically designed for seismological applications, our method utilizes a dynamic mini-batch stochastic L-BFGS to sequentially add new data while maintaining convergence and consistency in model fit measurement.
We present a new approach to full-waveform inversion (FWI) that enables the assimilation of data sets that expand over time without the need to reinvert all data. This evolutionary inversion rests on a reinterpretation of stochastic Limited-memory Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (L-BFGS), which randomly exploits redundancies to achieve convergence without ever considering the data set as a whole. Specifically for seismological applications, we consider a dynamic mini-batch stochastic L-BFGS, where the size of mini-batches adapts to the number of sources needed to approximate the complete gradient. As an illustration we present an evolutionary FWI for upper-mantle structure beneath Africa. Starting from a 1-D model and data recorded until 1995, we sequentially add contemporary data into an ongoing inversion, showing how (i) new events can be added without compromising convergence, (ii) a consistent measure of misfit can be maintained and (iii) the model evolves over times as a function of data coverage. Though applied retrospectively in this example, our method constitutes a possible approach to the continuous assimilation of seismic data volumes that often tend to grow exponentially.
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