The subsurface velocity model is crucial for high-resolution seismic imaging. Although full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a high-accuracy velocity inversion method, it inevitably suffers from challenging problems, including human interference, strong nonuniqueness, and high computing costs. As an efficient and accurate nonlinear algorithm, deep learning (DL) has been used to estimate velocity models. However, conventional DL is insufficient to characterize detailed structures and retrieve complex velocity models. To address the aforementioned problems, we propose a hybrid network (AG-ResUnet) involving fully convolutional layers, attention mechanism, and residual unit to estimate velocity models from common source point (CSP) gathers. Specifically, the attention mechanism extracts the boundary information, which serves as a structural constraint in network training. We introduce the structural similarity index (SSIM) to the loss function, which minimizes the misfit between predicted velocity and ground truth. Compared with FWI and other networks, AG-ResUnet is more effective and efficient. Experiments on transfer learning and noisy data inversion demonstrate that AG-ResUnet makes a generalized and robust velocity prediction with rich structural details. The synthetic examples demonstrate that our method can improve seismic velocity inversion, contributing to guiding the imaging of geological structures.

Marine controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) is an efficient method to explore ocean resources. The amplitudes of marine CSEM signals decay rapidly with the measuring offsets. The signal is easily contaminated by various kinds of noise when the offset is large. These noise include instrument internal noise, dipole vibration noise, seawater motion noise and environmental noise Suppressing noise is the key to improve data quality and interpretation accuracy. Sparse representation based denoising method has been used for denoising for a long time. provides a new way to remove noise. Under the framework of sparse representation, the denoising effect is closely related to the chosen transform matrix. This matrix is called dictionary and its column named atom. In general, the stronger the correlation between signal and dictionary is, the sparser representation will be, and further the better the denoising effect will be. In this article, a new method based on dictionary learning is proposed for marine CSEM denoising. Firstly, the signal segments suffering little from noise are captured to compose the training set. Then the learned dictionary is trained from the training set via K-singular value decomposition (K-SVD) algorithm. Finally, the learned dictionary is used to sparsely represent the contaminated signal and reconstruct the filtered one. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is verified by a synthetic data denoising experiment, in which windowed-Fourier-transform (WFT) and wavelet-transform (WT) denoising methods and three dictionaries (discrete-sine-transform (DST) dictionary, DST-wavelet merged dictionary and the learned dictionary) under a sparse representation framework are tested. The results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed dictionary-learning-based denoising method. Finally, the proposed approach is applied to field data denoising process, coupled with DST and DST-wavelet dictionaries based denoising methods. The outcomes further proves that the propsoed approach is effective and superior for marine CSEM data denoising.

Moho tomography is important for studying the deep Earth structure and geodynamics, and fiber borehole strainmeters are broadband, low-noise, and attractive tools for seismic observation. Recently, many studies have shown that fiber optic seismic sensors can be used for subsurface structure imaging based on ambient noise cross-correlation, similar to conventional geophones. However, this array-dependent cross-correlation method is not suitable for fiber borehole strainmeters. Here, we developed a Moho imaging scheme for the characteristics of fiber borehole strainmeters based on ambient noise autocorrelation. S-wave reflection signals were extracted from the ambient noise through a series of processing steps, including phase autocorrelation (PAC), phase-weighted stacking (PWS), etc. Subsequently, the time-to-depth conversion crustal thickness beneath the station was calculated. We applied our scheme to continuous four-component recordings from four fiber borehole strainmeters in Lu’an, Anhui Province, China. The obtained Moho depth was consistent with the previous research results. Our work shows that this method is suitable for Moho imaging with fiber borehole strainmeters without relying on the number of stations.