Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

Yaofeng He

Yaxun Tang

Rongrong Lu

Methods for updating a physical properties model of a subsurface region that combine advantages of FWI and tomography into a joint inversion scheme are provided. One method comprises obtaining measured seismic data; generating simulated seismic data using an initial model; computing at least one of an FWI gradient and a tomography gradient; minimizing a joint objective function E, wherein the objective function E is based on a combination of the FWI gradient and the tomography gradient or preconditioning of the FWI gradient or the tomography gradient; generating a final model based on the minimized joint objective function E; and using the final model to generate a subsurface image. The joint objective function E may be a function of one or both a FWI objective function Cand a tomography objective function C. The joint objective function E may be defined as a weighted sum of Cand C.

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Yaofeng He