Numerical analysis of a deep learning formulation of elastic full waveform inversion with high order total variation regularization in different parameterization

Abstract: We have formulated elastic seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) within a deep learning environment. In our formulation, a recurrent neural network is set up with rules enforcing elastic wave propagation, with the wavefield projected onto a measurement surface acting as the synthetic data to be compared with observed seismic data. Gradients for iterative updating of an elastic model, with a variety of parameterizations and misfit functionals, can be efficiently constructed within the network through the automatic differential method. With this method, the inversion based on complex misfits can be calculated. We survey the impact of different complex misfits (based on the l2, l1 ) with high order total variation (TV) regulations on multiparameter elastic FWI recovery of models within velocity/density, modulus/density, and stiffness parameter/density parameterizations. We analyze parameter cross-talk. Inversion results on simple and complex models show that the RNN elastic FWI with high order TV regulation using l1 norm can help mitigate cross-talk issues with gradient-based optimization methods.