Frequency-domain waveform inversion using an l1-norm objective function
Sukjoon Pyun 1 3 Woohyun Son 2 Changsoo Shin 21 Research Institute of Energy and Resources, Seoul National University, 599 Gwanangno, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742, Korea.
2 Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Seoul National University, 599 Gwanangno, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742, Korea.
3 Corresponding author. Email: pyunsj@gpl.snu.ac.kr
Exploration Geophysics 40(2) 227-232 https://doi.org/10.1071/EG08103
Submitted: 4 April 2008 Published: 17 June 2009
Abstract
In general, seismic waveform inversion adopts an objective function based on the l2-norm. However, waveform inversion using the l2-norm produces distorted results because the l2-norm is sensitive to statistically invalid data such as outliers. As an alternative, there have been several studies applying l1-norm-based objective functions to waveform inversion. Although waveform inversion based on the l1-norm is known to produce robust inversion results against specific outliers in the time domain, its effectiveness and characteristics are yet to be studied in the frequency domain. The present study proposes an algorithm for l1-norm-based waveform inversion in the frequency domain. The proposed algorithm employs a structure identical to those used in conventional frequency-domain waveform inversion algorithms that exploit the back-propagation technique, but displays robustness against outliers, which has been confirmed based on inversion of the synthetic Marmousi model. The characteristics and advantages of the l1-norm were analysed by comparing it with the l2-norm. In addition, inversion was performed on data containing outliers to examine the robustness against outliers. The effectiveness of removing outliers was verified by using the l1-norm to calculate the residual wavefield and its spectrum for the data containing outliers.
Key words: back-propagation algorithm, l1-norm, waveform inversion.
Acknowledgment
This work was supported by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) grant funded by the Korea government (MOST; No. R0A-2006–000–10291–0) and the Brain Korea 21 project of the Ministry of Education.
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