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Summary

While full waveform inversion (FWI) can provide high resolution velocity models, the method is often let down by the cycle skipping problem. Several solutions based on the estimation of the time shifts have been proposed. Among them, dynamic warping FWI (D-FWI) combines the dynamic warping for the computation of the time shifts between the observed and the predicted data, and a technique which partially warps the observed data to connect the predicted data in a cycle skipping-free way. However, the D-FWI still risks falling into local minima, in particular when the initial model is inaccurate and low-frequency data are missing. Here, we propose a more robust process for estimating the time shifts in which dynamic warping is repeated with offset dependent constraints. The more reliably detected time shifts, can be used in D-FWI with a waveform-based or a traveltime-based objective function to better manage the cycle-skipping problem. We demonstrate the method with a synthetic data from the Marmousi model as well as one challenging OBC dataset from Indonesia.

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2019-06-03
2024-03-29
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