Full Seismic Waveform Modelling and Inversion

1. Preliminaries
Andreas Fichtner

2. Introduction
Andreas Fichtner

3. Finite-Difference Methods
Andreas Fichtner

4. Spectral-Element Methods
Andreas Fichtner

5. Visco-elastic Dissipation
Andreas Fichtner

6. Absorbing Boundaries
Andreas Fichtner

7. Introduction to Iterative Non-linear Minimisation
Andreas Fichtner

8. The Time-Domain Continuous Adjoint Method
Andreas Fichtner

9. First and Second Derivatives with Respect to Structural and Source Parameters
Andreas Fichtner

10. The Frequency-Domain Discrete Adjoint Method
Andreas Fichtner

11. Misfit Functionals and Adjoint Sources
Andreas Fichtner

12. Fréchet and Hessian Kernel Gallery
Andreas Fichtner

13. Full Waveform Tomography on Continental Scales
Andreas Fichtner

14. Application of Full Waveform Tomography to Active-Source Surface-Seismic Data
Andreas Fichtner

15. Source Stacking Data Reduction for Full Waveform Tomography at the Global Scale
Andreas Fichtner

Keywords: Earth Sciences, Geophysics/Geodesy, Geophysics and Environmental Physics, Applications of Mathematics, Mathematical Applications in Earth Sciences