Full waveform inversion (FWI) is commonly used for high-resolution velocity model building. Conventional FWI with least-squares objective function often suffers from the problem of cycle skipping. This issue becomes prominent in subsurface structures with high complexity, significant deviations between the initial and true models, or a lack of low-frequency content in the data. To address the cycle-skipping problem, the authors present a novel joint-domain full waveform inversion (JDFWI) framework optimizing travel-time accuracy in both data and model domains.
Introduction
Various strategies have been proposed to address cycle skipping.
