Elastic Reflection Waveform Inversion With a Nonlinear Born Scattering Operator for Multiparameter Reconstruction

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Abstract
Elastic full waveform inversion (FWI) is one of the most popular tools in recovering the subsurface P- and S-velocity models with high resolution. However, it requires either a good starting model or low-frequency data to avoid the cycle-skipping issue. Elastic reflection waveform inversion (ERWI) uses the migration/demigration process to compute the low-wavenumber gradient. One drawback of conventional ERWI is that it mainly relies on the first-order Born scattering and only utilizes primary reflection wave paths, providing limited wavenumber illumination in the update. In this letter, a nonlinear Born scattering operator is incorporated with ERWI for multi-parameter reconstruction to mitigate the drawback of the conventional linear Born approximation. Finally, we use numerical examples to show that the nonlinear Born scattering operator allows us to take advantage of the multiples and enlarge the wavenumber illumination in ERWI results.
Funding Information
  • Key Development Foundation of China Railway Design Corporation (2021A241006)
  • National Key Research Development Program of China (2018YFA0702504)

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