Multicomponent, multi-azimuth pre-stack seismic waveform inversion for azimuthally anisotropic media using a parallel and computationally efficient non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1136-1154

  Li, Tao ^a   Mallick, Subhashis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Inverse theory; Seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WELL LOGGING;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CROSSOVER AND MUTATION; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; MULTICOMPONENT SEISMIC DATA; NON DOMINATED SORTING GENETIC ALGORITHM (NSGA II); NON- DOMINATED SORTING GENETIC ALGORITHMS; SEISMIC WAVEFORM INVERSION; UNCONVENTIONAL HYDROCARBONS;

SORTING;

EID: 85006828861     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu445     Document Type: Article

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