4.7 Article

Physics-Driven Deep Learning Inversion with Application to Magnetotelluric

Journal

REMOTE SENSING
Volume 14, Issue 13, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs14133218

Keywords

deep learning; magnetotelluric; inversion; electromagnetics; subsurface imaging

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [41304090]
  2. National Key Research and Development Project of China [2016YFC0303104]
  3. Ocean 13th Five-Year International Marine Resources Survey and Development of China [DY135-S1-1-07]

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This paper introduces a physics-driven deep learning method for geophysical inversion, which incorporates physics laws into network training and takes advantage of both data-driven and traditional physics-based methods to handle complex realistic exploration scenarios.
Due to the strong capability of building complex nonlinear mapping without involving linearization theory and high prediction efficiency; the deep learning (DL) technique applied to solve geophysical inverse problems has been a subject of growing interest. Currently, most DL-based inversion approaches are fully data-driven (namely standard deep learning), the performance of which largely depends on the training sample sets. However, due to the heavy burden of time and computational resources, it can be challenging to supply such a massive and exhaustive training dataset for generic realistic exploration scenarios and to perform network training. In this work, based on the recent advances in physics-based networks, the physical laws of magnetotelluric (MT) wave propagation is incorporated into a purely data-driven DL approach (PlainDNN) and thus builds a physics-driven DL MT inversion scheme (PhyDNN). In this scheme, the forward operator modeling MT wave propagation is integrated into the network training loop, in the form of minimizing a hybrid loss objective function composed of the data-driven model misfit and physics-based data misfit, to guide the network training. Consequently, the proposed PhyDNN method will take the advantage of the fully data-driven DL and conventional physics-based deterministic methods, allowing it to deal with complex realistic exploration scenarios. Quantitative and qualitative analysis results demonstrate that the PhyDNN can honor the physical laws of the MT inverse problem, and with other conditions unchanged, the PhyDNN outperforms the PlainDNN and the classical deterministic Occam inversion method. When processing field data, the PhyDNN method yields considerably impressive inversion results compared to the Occam method, and the corresponding simulated MT responses agree well with the real measurements, which confirms the effectiveness and applicability of the PhyDNN method.

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