Characterizing near-surface structures at the Ostia archaeological site based on instantaneous-phase coherency inversion

Traditional least-squares full-waveform inversion (FWI) suffers from severe local minima problems in case of the presence of strongly dispersive surface waves. Additionally, recorded wavefields are often characterized by amplitude errors due to varying source coupling and incorrect 3D-to-2D geometrical-spreading correction. Thus, least...

Near-surface diffractor detection at archaeological sites based on an interferometric workflow

Detecting small-size objects is a primary challenge at archaeological sites due to the high degree of heterogeneity present in the near surface. Although high-resolution reflection seismic imaging often delivers the target resolution of the subsurface in different near-surface settings, the standard processing for obtaining an image of the...