Effects of the sea floor topography on the 1D inversion of time‐domain marine controlled source electromagnetic data

Time‐domain marine controlled source electromagnetic methods have been used successfully for the detection of resistive targets such as hydrocarbons, gas hydrate, or marine groundwater aquifers. As the application of time‐domain marine controlled source electromagnetic methods increases, surveys in areas with a strong seabed topography are inevitable. In these cases, an important question is whether bathymetry information should be included in the interpretation of the measured electromagnetic field or not. Since multi‐dimensional inversion is still not common in time‐domain marine controlled source electromagnetic methods, bathymetry effects on the 1D inversion of single‐offset and multi‐offset joint inversions of time‐domain controlled source electromagnetic methods data are investigated. We firstly used an adaptive finite element algorithm to calculate the time‐domain controlled source electromagnetic methods responses of 2D resistivity models with seafloor topography. Then, 1D inversions are applied on the synthetic data derived from marine resistivity models, including the topography in order to study the possible topography effects on the 1D interpretation. To evaluate the effects of topography with various steepness, the slope angle of the seabed topography is varied in the synthetic modelling studies for deep water (air interaction is absent or very weak) and shallow water (air interaction is dominant), respectively. Several different patterns of measuring configurations are considered, such as the systems adopting nodal receivers and the bottom‐towed system. According to the modelling results for deep water when air interaction is absent, the 2D topography can distort the measured electric field. The distortion of the data increases gradually with the enlarging of the topography's slope angle. In our test, depending on the configuration, the seabed topography does not affect the 1D interpretation significantly if the slope angle is less or around 10°. However, if the slope angle increases to 30° or more, it is possible that significant artificial layers occur in inversion results and lead to a wrong interpretation. In a shallow water environment with seabed topography, where the air interaction dominates, it is possible to uncover the true subsurface resistivity structure if the water depth for the 1D inversion is properly chosen. In our synthetic modelling, this scheme can always present a satisfactory data fit in the 1D inversion if only one offset is used in the inversion process. However, the determination of the optimal water depth for a multi‐offset joint inversion is challenging due to the various air interaction for different offsets.     

自适应非结构有限元MT二维起伏地形正反演研究

在山区进行MT勘探时,用规则网格有限元方法模拟起伏地形会受到限制.本文采用非结构三角网格可以有效地模拟任意二维地质结构,如起伏地形、倾斜岩层和多尺度构造等.正演引入自适应有限元方法,其在网格剖分过程中能根据单元误差自动细化网格,保证了正演结果的精度.将自适应有限元与Occam算法结合,且引用并行处理技术提高正反演计算速度.通过对比两个理论模型,讨论了地形对MT正演响应的影响;其次进行了不同地电模型带地形反演展示了本文算法的正确性和适用性;最后将该方法应用于实测MT数据处理,证明了自适应非结构有限元方法是复杂地形下处理MT数据的有力工具.     

基于矢量有限元的带地形大地电磁三维反演研究

研究了基于矢量有限元方法的大地电磁带地形三维反演算法并开发了三维反演计算程序代码.在大地电磁场正演数值模拟方面,采用并行直接稀疏求解器PARDISO且无需进行散度校正的快速正演方案,对典型地形模型,在中等规模计算条件下,与双共轭梯度法(BICG)计算结果比较,发现PARDISO比BICG快10倍以上;通过理论模型试算,并与前人的有限元法计算结果对比,验证了带地形三维正演计算程序的正确性.在反演方面,本研究基于共轭梯度方法编写了大地电磁带地形三维反演代码,为了避免直接求取雅可比矩阵,将反演中的雅可比矩阵计算问题转为求解两次“拟正演”问题,进而将PARDISO的快速正演方案应用于“拟正演”问题的求解,以提高反演计算效率.利用开发的反演算法对多个带地形地电模型的合成数据进行了三维反演,反演结果能很好地重现理论模型的电性结构,验证了本文开发的三维反演算法的正确性和可靠性.最后,利用该算法反演了某矿区大地电磁实测数据,反演得到的三维电性结构清晰地反映了研究区的地电特征,将反演结果与该区已有地质资料结合进行解释,应用效果明显,进一步验证了本文算法的有效性.     

Three-dimensional inversion of magnetotelluric data including sea effects obtained in Pohang, Korea

Magnetotelluric (MT) surveys were conducted in Pohang, Korea, for low-temperature geothermal exploration in 2002 and 2003. Pohang is located in the southeastern part of the Korean Peninsula and close to the East Sea. In the interpretation of MT data from a coastal environment, sea effects must be correctly included because seawater is a strong conductor. We first constructed a five-layered earth model with a realistic coastline and bathymetry to investigate sea effects on MT data measured in Pohang. This model clearly shows that the Pohang data are significantly influenced by sea water at frequencies blow 1 Hz at the whole measurement sites. Next, we utilized a three-dimensional inversion algorithm based on the Gauss–Newton approach to produce a reliable resistivity model. Seawater is excluded from the inversion domain to fix the resistivity, while included in the modeling domain to simulate sea effects on MT responses. Blocks for the sub-seafloor are included in unknown parameters since they are sufficiently close to the survey area to affect MT responses in Pohang. Static shifts are also considered in inversion for more accurate interpretation. The rms data misfit is smoothly reduced from 11.2 to 1.87 after 7 iterations. The resulting resistivity model shows a pattern of low–high–low resistivity with depth. The model is compatible with resistivity logs obtained from four boreholes in the survey area, and can explain major geological features in Pohang.     

基于有限差分正演的带地形三维大地电磁反演方法

本研究实现了一套基于有限差分（FD）方法的大地电磁测深数据带地形三维反演算法及代码.其中,在大地电磁场正演数值模拟方面,开发了起伏地形条件下基于交错网格剖分、有限差分方法的大地电磁测深三维正演代码;在满足平面波场假设的前提下,使用长方体网格剖分模拟三维起伏地形,实现了带地形三维正演计算;并设计理论模型进行试算,经试算结果与前人的有限元法计算结果对比,验证了所研发的带地形三维正演计算的正确性与可靠性.在反演方面,本研究基于非线性共轭梯度方法编写了大地电磁测深带地形三维反演代码,试验了不同的共轭梯度搜索因子β,避免了目标函数对海森矩阵（参数二次导数矩阵）的显式计算和存储,初步实现了大地电磁资料的带地形三维反演.最后,对一系列理论模型进行正演计算,利用其生成的合成数据模拟实测数据进行反演,并与现有的不带地形大地电磁测深三维反演结果比较,检验了所研发的带地形三维反演计算的可靠性与稳定性.     

Unstructured grid based 2-D inversion of VLF data for models including topography

We present a 2-D inversion code incorporating a damped least-squares and a minimum-model approach for plane wave electromagnetic (EM) methods using an adaptive unstructured grid finite element forward operator. Unstructured triangular grids permit efficient discretization of arbitrary 2-D model geometries and, hence, allow for modeling arbitrary topography. The inversion model is parameterized on a coarse parameter grid which constitutes a subset of the forward modeling grid. The mapping from parameter to forward modeling grid is obtained by adaptive mesh refinement. Sensitivities are determined by solving a modified sensitivity equation system arising from the derivative of the finite element equations with respect to the model parameters. Firstly, we demonstrate that surface topography may induce significant effects on the EM response and in the inversion result, and that it cannot be ignored when the scale length of topographic variations is in the order of magnitude of the skin depth. Secondly, the dependency of the inversion on the starting model is discussed for VLF and VLF-R data. Thirdly, we demonstrate the inversion of a synthetic data set obtained from a model with topography. Finally, the inversion approach is applied to field data collected in a region with undulating topography.     

电导率各向异性的海洋电磁三维有限单元法正演

本文提出了一种基于非结构化网格的海洋电磁有限单元正演算法.为了回避场源奇异性,文中选用二次场算法,将背景电阻率设置为水平层状且各向异性,场源在水平层状各向异性介质中所激发的一次场通过汉克尔积分得到.基于Coulomb规范得到二次矢量位和标量位所满足的Maxwell方程组,通过Galerkin加权余量法形成大型稀疏有限元方程,采用不完全LU分解(ILU)预条件因子的quasi-minimum residual(QMR)迭代解法对有限元方程进行求解得到二次矢量位和标量位;进而,利用滑动平均方法得到二次矢量位和标量位在空间的导数,由此得到二次电磁场;通过一维模型对算法的可靠性进行验证,与此同时,针对实际复杂海洋电磁模型,比较有限元模拟结果与积分方程模拟结果,进一步验证算法精度.若干计算结果均表明,文中算法具有良好的通用性,适用于井中电磁、航空电磁,环境地球物理等非均匀且各向异性介质中的电磁感应基础研究.     

考虑电流型畸变的大地电磁三维反演

大地电磁测深(MT)的观测数据易受到由近地表小尺度非均匀体或地形起伏引起的电流型畸变干扰,消除或压制这种干扰对获取可靠的深部电性结构至关重要.当区域结构为二维时,电流型畸变可采用张量分解等方法予以消除或压制.当区域结构为三维时,畸变问题更加复杂和严重,传统张量分解方法往往效果不佳或无效,严重地制约了MT三维反演技术的实用性.对此,本文提出一种考虑电流型畸变的MT三维反演算法,将完整的电流型畸变参数引入到目标函数,并采用非线性共轭梯度法与电阻率参数同时反演,从而达到压制畸变的目的.该算法有两个关键点:一是通过分析实测数据所遭受畸变的分布特征,在目标函数中对其进行有效约束;二是在迭代过程中,通过自适应地调整双正则化因子保障算法的稳定和效率.理论模型测试结果显示,常规三维反演算法不能合理解释数据中的畸变成分,而只能通过引入虚假异常体强制地拟合受畸变数据,从而造成电阻率模型严重失真.与之相比,本文算法能够在反演中自动求解各测点所受到的畸变,获得更接近真实的电阻率模型.     

无网格局部Petrov-Galerkin法大地电磁场二维正演模拟

有限差分法和有限单元法在大地电磁场数值模拟中已经得到了广泛的应用,但其数值结果的精度在很大程度上依赖于网格的离散程度.当模拟起伏地形、弯曲界面等复杂地电模型大地电磁场响应时,常常需要花费大量的时间以便得到较合理的离散网格.无网格局部Petrov-Galerkin法(MLPG)不同于有限差分法和有限元法,其形函数和权函数脱离了网格的束缚.本文详细推导了二维大地电磁场边值问题的弱式形式,并将其离散为局部积分域内的表达形式.通过模拟二维海洋地电模型大地电磁场响应,并与结构网格有限元结果进行对比,验证了本文算法和程序的正确性及精度.设计了一个含有弯曲界面的二维地电模型,讨论了不同离散网格对MLPG无网格法模拟结果的影响,并与结构有限元法结果进行了比较,结果表明MLPG无网格法模拟结果受离散网格影响较小.最后利用MLPG无网格法计算了两个海洋起伏地形模型的大地电磁响应,讨论了海底起伏地形对大地电磁响应的影响.     

基于模型空间压缩的大地电磁三维反演研究

本文提出了一种基于模型空间压缩技术的大地电磁三维反演方法.该方法在传统大地电磁三维反演理论的基础上,通过小波变换将待反演的空间域模型参数映射到小波域进行反演,获得小波域更新模型后再通过小波逆变换得到空间域反演模型.由于小波变换具有压缩特性和多尺度分辨能力,本文反演方法可在一定程度上提高反演分辨率.为了提高反演效率,我们针对基于L_1范数的模型约束求解不易收敛的反演问题,提出了一种基于模型粗糙度的简单有效的预条件处理技术.为验证本文算法的有效性,本文首先对经典的"棋盘"模型进行三维反演测试.反演结果表明本文算法的反演效率与传统方法相当,但对于深部异常体具有更好的分辨能力.最后,我们通过对实测数据反演进一步验证本文算法的有效性.     

基于局部加密非结构网格的海洋可控源电磁法三维有限元正演

本文基于非结构网格实现了海洋可控源电磁法三维有限元正演模拟.该算法采用完全非结构网格剖分,可以模拟任意起伏地形和复杂地电模型.为了避免场源的奇异性,采用一次场/二次场分解算法,一次场由基于Schelkunoff势函数的一维解析公式得到.为了提高算法的精度和效率,采用对测点附近单元和异常体区域进行体积约束加密的方法,实现了非结构网格的局部加密.一、二维模型计算和分析表明,本文采用的局部加密方法能够明显地改善算法的精度,最大相对误差基本在1%以内.对三维模型计算及对比分析,说明了该算法对三维可控源电磁正演的实用性.复杂海底地形模型的正演模拟表明,海底地形对电磁场的影响很大,在进行海洋可控源电磁资料解释时,地形的影响有必要考虑在内.     

Two‐dimensional waveform inversion of multi‐component data in acoustic‐elastic coupled media

In order to account for the effects of elastic wave propagation in marine seismic data, we develop a waveform inversion algorithm for acoustic‐elastic media based on a frequency‐domain finite‐element modelling technique. In our algorithm we minimize residuals using the conjugate gradient method, which back‐propagates the errors using reverse time migration without directly computing the partial derivative wavefields. Unlike a purely acoustic or purely elastic inversion algorithm, the Green's function matrix for our acoustic‐elastic algorithm is asymmetric. We are nonetheless able to achieve computational efficiency using modern numerical methods. Numerical examples show that our coupled inversion algorithm produces better velocity models than a purely acoustic inversion algorithm in a wide variety of cases, including both single‐ and multi‐component data and low‐cut filtered data. We also show that our algorithm performs at least equally well on real field data gathered in the Korean continental shelf.     

Laplace-domain full waveform inversion using irregular finite elements for complex foothill environments

Refraction-traveltime tomography is the most common approach and widely used for estimating velocity models with rugged topography and strongly variant near-surface geology. However, for complex geographical structures, there is often a restriction to the application of the conventional approach because the refracted energy can be trapped by the near-surface structure, which leads to limited depth penetration. To solve this problem, we propose a velocity estimation algorithm for foothill areas using Laplace-domain full waveform inversion (FWI) with irregular finite elements. Because the Laplace-domain FWI uses wavefields damped exponentially in time, the acoustic wave equation can be applied to foothill datasets without suppressing various types of elastic noise. In this study, irregular finite elements are generated to depict complicated surface topography using a Delaunay triangulation and tetrahedralization algorithm. Furthermore, adaptive mesh generation that formulates larger size elements with greater depth is used for minimizing the intensive computational costs in solving the full wave equation in the 2D and 3D domains. The validity of our proposed algorithm is demonstrated for 2D and 3D synthetic datasets and a 2D real exploration dataset acquired in the complex Aquio field foothill area in Bolivia.     

面向目标自适应有限元法的带地形三维大地电磁各向异性正演模拟

传统三维大地电磁各向异性模拟均是基于规则六面体网格,计算精度有限且较难拟合复杂地质条件.本文采用面向目标自适应非结构矢量有限元法,对三维大地电磁各向异性介质进行模拟.首先从电场双旋度方程出发,利用伽辽金方法建立变分方程;然后利用电流密度连续性条件构建适合大地电磁各向异性问题的加权后验误差估计方法,实现面向目标的网格自适应正演;最后通过典型算例分析各向异性对网格自适应和大地电磁响应的影响特征以及各向异性的识别方法.本文算法能够高精度地拟合起伏地表和任意各向异性介质,适用于分析复杂地电条件大地电磁响应特征,为提高大地电磁资料解释水平提供了理论基础.     

大地电磁的人工鱼群最优化约束反演

大地电磁的反演问题是非线性,如果采用线性反演方法容易陷入局部极小,使得反演结果非唯一性严重.本文将人工鱼群算法引入到地球物理反演之中,提出了非线性的大地电磁人工鱼群最优化反演.该方法不需要进行偏导数的求取,可以对反演的范围进行约束,以减小反演结果的非唯一性.同时我们对搜索步长进行了改进,给出适用于大地电磁反演的人工鱼群参数.大量的理论数据试算表明,人工鱼群反演算法能够较好地寻找到全局最优解.实测数据的处理结果表明,该方法可以用来处理实际资料,并且能够取得很好的应用效果.     

基于非结构网格的电阻率三维带地形反演

地表起伏地形在野外矿产资源勘察中不可避免,其对直流电阻率法勘探影响巨大.近年来,电阻率三维正演取得诸多进展,特别是应用非结构网格我们能够进行任意复杂地形和几何模型的电阻率三维数值模拟,但面向实际应用的起伏地形下电阻率三维反演依然困难.本文基于非结构化四面体网格,并考虑到应用GPS/GNSS时,区域地球物理调查中可非规则布设测网的实际特点,实现了任意地形(平坦或起伏)条件下、任意布设的偶极-偶极视电阻率数据的不完全Gauss-Newton三维反演.合成数据的反演结果表明了方法的有效性,可应用于复杂野外环境下的三维电法勘探.     

大地电磁三维交错网格有限差分数值模拟的并行计算研究

为了更有效的提高大地电磁三维正演的计算速度,引入了并行处理技术.大地电磁三维交错网格有限差分数值模拟是按照不同频率来计算的,各频率之间求取电磁场值的过程是相互独立的.根据这一特点,可以将多个频率的计算任务平均划分为一个或者几个频率的计算子任务,分配到各个计算节点去并行执行,计算完成后将结果汇总.本文通过采用主从并行模式、分频并行计算的方案,在曙光TC5000A高性能并行平台上实现了基于MPI的大地电磁三维正演的并行计算.通过两个理论模型对实现的大地电磁三维正演并行算法进行试算,对比分析了多个节点机下程序的执行效率.测试结果表明,所实现的三维正演并行算法是正确的、高效的,为进一步的大地电磁三维反演并行算法研究奠定了重要基础.     

Joint three-dimensional inversion of magnetotelluric and magnetovariational data

The problem of quantitative three-dimensional interpretation of the magnetotelluric (MT) data ranks among the most difficult problems in electromagnetic (EM) geophysics. Our paper presents a new rigorous numerical method for MT inversion, based on the integral equations technique. An important feature of the proposed method is the calculation of the Frechet derivative with the aid of a quasi-analytical approximation with an inhomogeneous background. This approach simplifies the algorithm of inversion and requires only a single forward modeling on each iteration. We have also developed a method for a joint inversion of MT and magnetovariational (MV) data. We show in the present paper that the joint inversion of MT impedances and the Wiese-Parkinson vectors can automatically allow for the static shift in the observed data, which is caused by the geoelectric inhomogeneities contained in the near-surface layer.     

井地磁异常模量联合反演

三维反演是磁测数据定量解释的重要方法,在金属矿勘探中扮演着重要的角色.但是在实际矿区的应用中,传统的磁总场异常反演方法依然存在两个问题：一是地面磁异常反演的深度分辨率较低,深部场源体的成像效果差;二是金属矿中可能包含强剩磁,反演结果可能是完全错误的.尽管前人对上述两个问题分别进行了广泛的研究,但尚未尝试同时解决这两个问题.本文在前人研究的基础上,提出了一种井地磁异常模量联合反演方法,该方法需要的控制参数少,无需加入额外的地质信息,且可用于多场源复杂磁异常的反演,具有较强的适用性.本文方法首先将地面和井中磁异常转化为模量数据,然后利用基于核函数或距离的加权函数将井地模量数据结合起来,使得该方法适用于联合反演.我们利用井地多种异常参量进行反演的模型试验表明,在强剩磁存在时,本文方法的效果优于其他方法,在减少剩磁影响的同时,也改善了深部成像效果,具有良好的应用前景.     

A finite-volume approach for 2D magnetotellurics modeling with arbitrary topographies

A novel finite-volume approach for complicated 2D magnetotellurics (MT) problems with arbitrarily surface topography is presented. An edge-surface integral balance equation is derived by employing a conservation law on the generalized 2D MT boundary value problem. A triangular grid is used to discretize the 2D conductivity model so that we can deal with arbitrarily complex cases with surface topography. The node-centered finite-volume algorithm is used to derive the final system of linear equations on a dual mesh of the triangular grid, which is solved by a robust direct solver. Three synthetic models verify the accuracy of the presented finite-volume algorithm and its capability of dealing with surface topography.