1D elastic full-waveform inversion and uncertainty estimation by means of a hybrid genetic algorithm–Gibbs sampler approach

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 64-85

  Aleardi, Mattia ^a   Mazzotti, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elastic; Full waveform inversion; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHAINS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM IMPLEMENTATION; ELASTIC; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; GENETIC-ALGORITHM OPTIMIZATIONS; HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD; STOCHASTIC; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION METHODS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DATA INVERSION; ELASTIC WAVE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84978224435     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2478.12397     Document Type: Article

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