Article Dans Une Revue Geophysical Journal International Année : 2024

A matching pursuit approach to the geophysical inverse problem of seismic traveltime tomography under the ray theory approximation

N Schneider
V Michel
K Sigloch
E Totten

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Seismic traveltime tomography is a geophysical imaging method to infer the 3-D interior structure of the solid Earth. Most commonly formulated as a linearized inverse problem, it maps differences between observed and expected wave traveltimes to interior regions where waves propagate faster or slower than the expected average. The Earth’s interior is typically parametrized by a single kind of localized basis function. Here we present an alternative approach that uses matching pursuits on large dictionaries of basis functions.Within the past decade the (Learning) Inverse Problem Matching Pursuits [(L)IPMPs] have been developed. They combine global and local trial functions. An approximation is built in a so-called best basis, chosen iteratively from an intentionally overcomplete set or dictionary. In each iteration, the choice for the next best basis element reduces the Tikhonov–Phillips functional. This is in contrast to classical methods that use either global or local basis functions. The LIPMPs have proven their applicability in inverse problems like the downward continuation of the gravitational potential as well as the MEG-/EEG-problem from medical imaging. Here, we remodel the Learning Regularized Functional Matching Pursuit (LRFMP), which is one of the LIPMPs, for traveltime tomography in a ray theoretical setting. In particular, we introduce the operator, some possible trial functions and the regularization. We show a numerical proof of concept for artificial traveltime delays obtained from a contrived model for velocity differences. The corresponding code is available online.

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A pour origine hal-04199066 Preprint Naomi Schneider, Volker Michel, Karin Sigloch, Eoghan Totten. A matching pursuit approach to the geophysical inverse problem of seismic travel time tomography under the ray theory approximation. 2023. ⟨hal-04199066⟩

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hal-04662504 , version 1 (26-07-2024)

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N Schneider, V Michel, K Sigloch, E Totten. A matching pursuit approach to the geophysical inverse problem of seismic traveltime tomography under the ray theory approximation. Geophysical Journal International, 2024, 238 (3), pp.1546-1581. ⟨10.1093/gji/ggae153⟩. ⟨hal-04662504⟩
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