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Exploiting Seismic Waveforms

Exploiting Seismic Waveforms

Exploiting Seismic Waveforms

Correlation, Heterogeneity and Inversion
Brian L. N. Kennett, Australian National University, Canberra
Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich
January 2021
Paperback
9781108828789

    Exploiting Seismic Waveforms introduces a range of recent developments in seismology including the application of correlation techniques, understanding of multi-scale heterogeneity and the extraction of structure and source information by seismic waveform inversion. It provides a full treatment of correlation methods for seismic noise and event signals, and develops inverse methods for both sources and structure. Higher frequency components of seismograms are frequently neglected, or removed by filtering, but they contain information about seismic structure on scales that cannot be revealed by seismic tomography. Sufficient computational resources are now available for waveform inversion for 3-D structure to be a practical procedure and this book describes suitable algorithms and examples reflecting current best practice. Intended for students and researchers in seismology, this book provides a physical understanding of seismic waveforms and the way that different aspects of the seismic wavefield are revealed by the way that seismic data are handled.

    • Covers recent developments in seismology not found in other books and provides a full treatment of correlation techniques and waveform inversion
    • Combines theory with practical examples to allow broad development of topics
    • Discusses higher frequency seismology in the context of heterogeneity and introduces multi-scale heterogeneity

    Reviews & endorsements

    ‘The authors of this volume are recognized internationally for their many fundamental contributions to global and exploration geophysics. They have succeeded admirably in producing a volume that straddles both disciplines and commenting on the often-ignored relationships and differences between them. Exploiting Seismic Waveforms is bound to become a standard reference in both theoretical and computational seismology. The theory is presented with the eloquence and crispness we have already known to be associated with previous writings by these two authors. Allow me therefore … to grade this beautiful volume with an A+.’ Sven Treitel, The Leading Edge

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    Product details

    January 2021
    Paperback
    9781108828789
    502 pages
    243 × 171 × 24 mm
    0.96kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction
    • Part I: Building the Seismic Wavefield:
    • 2. Stratified Media
    • 3. Laterally Varying Media
    • 4. The Reflection Field
    • Part II: Correlation Wavefields:
    • 5. Correlations and Transfer Functions
    • 6. Correlations and Interferometry
    • 7. Correlations and Ambient Noise
    • 8. Coda Correlations
    • 9. Correlations in Receiver Studies
    • Part III: Interaction of Seismic Waves with Heterogeneity:
    • 10. Deterministic and Stochastic Heterogeneity
    • 11. The Effects of Heterogeneity
    • 12. Scattering and Stochastic Waveguides
    • 13. Multi-scale Heterogeneity
    • Part IV: Inversion for Earth Structure:
    • 14. Inference for Structure
    • 15. Gradient Methods for Nonlinear Inversion
    • 16. Adjoint Methods and Sensitivity Analysis
    • 17. Waveform Inversion of Event Data
    • 18. Waveform Inversion of Correlation Data
    • 19. New Directions
    • Appendix: Table of Notation
    • Bibliography
    • Index.