A review of the research progress and application status of seismic full waveform inversion

CHEN Zi-Long; WANG Hai-Yan; GUO Hua; WANG Guang-Wen; ZHAO Yu-Lian

doi:10.11720/wtyht.2023.1469

2023 Vol. 47, No. 3

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CHEN Zi-Long, WANG Hai-Yan, GUO Hua, WANG Guang-Wen, ZHAO Yu-Lian. 2023. A review of the research progress and application status of seismic full waveform inversion. Geophysical and Geochemical Exploration, 47(3): 628-637. doi: 10.11720/wtyht.2023.1469

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CHEN Zi-Long, WANG Hai-Yan, GUO Hua, WANG Guang-Wen, ZHAO Yu-Lian. 2023. A review of the research progress and application status of seismic full waveform inversion. Geophysical and Geochemical Exploration, 47(3): 628-637. doi: 10.11720/wtyht.2023.1469

A review of the research progress and application status of seismic full waveform inversion

1. Lithosphere Research Center,Institute of Geology,Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences,Beijing 100037,China;
2. Key Laboratory of Deep-Earth Dynamics of Ministry of Natural Resources,Beijing 100037,China;
3. China Aero Geophysical Survey and Remote Sensing Center for Natural Resources,Beijing 100083,China;
4. PetroChina Research Institute(Northwest) of Petroleum Exploration & Development,Lanzhou 730020,China

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Corresponding author: WANG Hai-Yan

Received Date: 22 September 2022

Revised Date: 01 February 2023

Publish Date: 05 July 2023

Abstract

Abstract

As resource exploration deepens and becomes increasingly difficult,improving the imaging precision and the reservoir prediction accuracy under a complex tectonic setting has become a top priority of research.The full waveform inversion (FWI) method developed in recent years can be applied to complex geological structures.This method can reveal structural details in a complex geological setting using the dynamic and kinematic information in the pre-stack seismic wave field.However,this method involves many research elements such as model parameterization,building of inverse error function,data preprocessing,numerical simulation of wavelengths,and wavelet estimation.Thus,its development is bound to be a long-term gradual improvement process.The FWI method has been applied to actual observation data with the development of theory and computer technology.This study introduced the principle and processing flow of the FWI method and summarized its development history and its application status in marine and onshore seismic data,and deep seismic reflection data.Accordingly, this study presented the current application bottlenecks,data processing difficulties, and challenges of deep-crustal inversion imaging for subsequent research and application of the FWI method.
- seismic exploration /
- full waveform inversion /
- high-resolution imaging /
- study progress /
- application status