Seismic Inversion

Inversion turns reflection data back into rock properties. Go from reflectivity to acoustic impedance, pose the inverse problem mathematically, and follow full-waveform inversion from theory to the practical low-frequency strategies that make it converge.

20 interactive sections across 3 books
Start here → Inversion basics: from reflectivity to impedance, from 3D Seismic Interpretation

3D Seismic Interpretation

  1. Inversion basics: from reflectivity to impedance
  2. Full-waveform inversion: matching observed to modeled waveforms

Seismic Data Processing

  1. The inverse problem, mathematically
  2. FWI in practice: low-frequency strategies
  3. Optimization basics
  4. Linear algebra primer

Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Exploration Seismology

  1. Multi-parameter inversion (vp, vs, rho)
  2. The forward problem vs the inverse problem
  3. 1D velocity inversion end-to-end
  4. 2D Marmousi-class inversion: setup
  5. Source-encoded FWI-PINN
  6. AVO from PINN-augmented FWI
  7. Marmousi velocity inversion (the field-standard testbed)
  8. Microseismic monitoring of a Marcellus frac stage
  9. USArray surface-wave tomography of the western US
  10. Defending an inversion run: convergence diagnostics
  11. The classical FWI loss vs the PINN-FWI loss
  12. Travel-time tomography
  13. PINN as regulariser, initialiser, or solver
  14. Uncertainty-aware velocity inversion

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