Article Dans Une Revue Geophysical Journal International Année : 2019

Bayesian joint muographic and gravimetric inversion applied to volcanoes

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Gravimetry is a technique widely used to image the structure of the Earth. However, inversions are ill-posed and the imaging power of the technique rapidly decreases with depth. To overcome this limitation, muography, a new imaging technique relying on high energy atmospheric muons, has recently been developed. Because muography only provides integrated densities above the detector from a limited number of observation points, inversions are also ill-posed. Previous studies have shown that joint muographic and gravimetric inversions better reconstruct the 3-D density structure of volcanic edifices than independent density inversions. These studies address the ill-posedness of the joint problem by regularizing the solution with respect to a prior density model. However, the obtained solutions depend on some hyperparameters, which are either determined relative to a single test case or rely on ad-hoc parameters. This can lead to inaccurate retrieved models, sometimes associated with artefacts linked to the muon data acquisition. In this study, we use a synthetic example based on the Puy de Dôme volcano to determine a robust method to obtain the resulting model closest to the synthetic model and devoid of acquisition artefacts. We choose a Bayesian approach to include an a priori density model and a smoothing by a Gaussian spatial correlation function relying on two hyperparameters: an a priori density standard deviation and an isotropic spatial correlation length. This approach has the advantage to provide a posteriori standard deviations on the resulting densities. Using our synthetic volcano, we investigate the most reliable criterion to determine the hyperparameters. Our results suggest that k-fold Cross-Validation Sum of Squares and the Leave One Out methods are more robust criteria than the classically used L-curves. The determined hyperparameters allow to overcome the artefacts linked to the data acquisition geometry, even when only a limited number of muon telescopes is available. We also illustrate the behaviour of the inversion in case of offsets in the a priori density or in the data and show that they lead to recognizable structures that help identify them.

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hal-02196499 , version 1 (28-07-2019)

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Anne Barnoud, Valérie Cayol, Valentin Niess, Cristina Carloganu, Peter Lelièvre, et al.. Bayesian joint muographic and gravimetric inversion applied to volcanoes. Geophysical Journal International, 2019, 218 (3), pp.2179-2194. ⟨10.1093/gji/ggz300⟩. ⟨hal-02196499⟩
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