S13C:
Imaging the Earth I: Theory and Methods at Reservoir and Local Scales II

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Session ID#: 17914

Session Description:
This session focuses on new mathematical, computational, and theoretical breakthroughs in seismic imaging and waveform inversion to address challenges in inversion and imaging. We welcome topics along but not limited to the following lines: initial model building, nonlinear and other novel inversion strategy, inversion of sources, limited data acquisition, multiples and multiple scattering, role of low frequencies and wavenumber, and quantifying uncertainties and artifacts in the inversion. Modeled/synthetic data, blind tests, both successful and unsuccessful real-data case studies, in exploration and reservoir geophysics and other related areas are encouraged to submit. This session is complementary to session Imaging the Earth II: From Data to Processes on regional to global scales. Together, they are intended to promote communication between exploration and global seismology.
Primary Convener:  Yingcai Zheng, University of Houston, Earth and Atmospherical Sciences Dept, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Yingcai Zheng, University of Houston, Earth and Atmospherical Sciences Dept, Houston, TX, United States, Tariq Alkhalifah, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia and Min Chen, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
Chairs:  Tariq Alkhalifah, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Min Chen, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States and Yingcai Zheng, University of Houston, Earth and Atmospherical Sciences Dept, Houston, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Min Chen, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
Index Terms:

7215 Earthquake source observations [SEISMOLOGY]
7260 Theory [SEISMOLOGY]
7270 Tomography [SEISMOLOGY]
7290 Computational seismology [SEISMOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Automated imaging and inversion of single-channel seismic data using diffractions (173334)
Benjamin Schwarz1, Alexander Bauer2 and Dirk Gajewski1, (1)University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, (2)University of Hamburg, Institute of Geophysics, Hamburg, Germany
Quantifying wave propagation in finely stratified elastic media (163750)
Douglas J Foster, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States and F. D. Lane, Oklahoma Weselyan University, Mathematics, Bartlesville, OK, United States
A Comparison of Earthquake Back-Projection Imaging Methods for Dense Local Arrays, and Application to the 2011 Virginia Aftershock Sequence (167191)
Gungor Didem Beskardes1, John A Hole2, Kai Wang1, Qimin Wu1, Martin C Chapman1, Kathy K Davenport3, Michael Michaelides4, Larry D Brown5 and Diego Quiros6, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, (3)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States, (4)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Economics, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (5)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (6)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
Least squares reverse time migration of controlled order multiples (129976)
Yike Liu, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Direct Iterative Nonlinear Inversion by Multi-frequency T-matrix Completion (174833)
Morten Jakobsen, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway and Ru-Shan Wu, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Time-dependent seismic tomography: Application to the Coso geothermal system, California (183919)
Najwa Mhana1, Bruce R Julian2, Bruce R Julian2 and Gillian R Foulger1, (1)Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Objective-function Hybridization in Adjoint Seismic Tomography (176662)
Yanhua O. Yuan, Princeton University, Princeton, United States, Ebru Bozdag, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France, Frederik Simons, Princeton University, Department Of Geosciences, Princeton, United States and Fuchun Gao, Total EP Research & Technology, Houston, TX, United States

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