Automated seismic acquisition geometry design for optimized illumination at the target: a linearized approach

In seismic exploration methods, imperfect spatial sampling at the surface causes a lack of illumination at the target in the subsurface. The hampered image quality at the target area of interest causes uncertainties in reservoir monitoring and production, which can have a substantial economic impact. Especially in the case of a complex...

Towards high resolution quantitative subsurface models by full waveform inversion

Full waveform inversion (FWI) has the potential to recover detailed quantitative property models of the subsurface, but the process is computationally expensive. Currently available computer systems do not allow to use the full bandwidth of the acquired seismic data, which effectively reduces the resolution that can be obtained. In this paper,...