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Division Name: Physical Sciences and Engineering
Semester: Spring, 2025
Course credit hours: 1
Instructor:
Name: Tariq Alkhalifah
Office: Building 1, Office 3308
Phone: 8080282
Office Hours: Tuesday 3-4 PM & Wednesday 3-4 PM
Course Description
Course Description
ErSE328: Advanced Seismic Inversion
ErSE328: Advanced Seismic Inversion
Prerequisite:
Time and Place: Mondays from 9:00AM to 12:00PM in Room 3309, Building 1, R.
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Course Objectives:
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course, students will be knowledgeable in:
The scientific foundation behind Full waveform inversion.
The FWI algorithms
The FWI challenges
The uncertainties involved
General Course Outline:
General Course Outline:
Introduction to seismic inversion:
What is inversion?
What do we mean by full waveform inversion?
The Algorithm.
The elements of seismic waveform inversion:
Model and data.
The objective function.
The update.
The sensitivity kernel.
The nonlinear issue.
Examples.
Seismic Anisotropy (maybe):
Definition and parameters.
The acoustic anisotropic wave equation.
Fundamental issues.
FWI and anisotropy (maybe):
Multi-parameter inversion.
The right set of parameters.
The anisotropic sensitivity kernels.
Getting an initial model.
Anisotropy and MVA.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
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