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Volume 49, Issue 1
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We implement full waveform inversion in an auxiliary coordinate system to improve inversion quality of near-surface regions with strong elevation and velocity variation. Furthermore, a time-domain multi-scale decomposition method and an optimised encoding strategy are introduced to the inversion frame to promote the practical application of our method.

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For land exploration areas with irregular surface topography, there are many challenges and problems for full waveform inversion (FWI); for example, which type of wave equation should be used to calculate high-accuracy seismic wavefields, how to deal with diffraction of irregular surface topography, what initial velocity model should be utilised to improve the inversion accuracy and how to enhance the computational efficiency of iterative FWI. Aiming at these difficulties, we first simulate the seismic waves with the first-order acoustic wave equation in an auxiliary coordinate system, which easily describes irregular surface topography. Then, we apply this wavefield simulation frame to FWI to improve inversion quality of near-surface regions with strong elevation and velocity variation. Furthermore, to enhance the robustness and computational efficiency, a time-domain multi-scale decomposition method based on the Wiener filter and an optimised encoding strategy are introduced to the proposed inversion frame, and are critical to promoting the practical application of our method. Typical numerical tests prove that the proposed method can obtain more accurate inversion results than the traditional time-domain FWI.

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