Can high-resolution marine geophysical data be inverted for soil properties?

In hydrocarbon prospection, the inversion of marine geophysical data for remote reservoir characterization has developed enormously over the past 20+ years. While some techniques (e.g., waveform inversion) are computationally expensive to permit widespread application across all targets, other less expensive variants (e.g., impedance and amplitude-versus-angle inversion) have become a standard component of most interpretation workflows. In contrast, there has been very little progress toward the remote classification of near-surface sediments through the inversion of high-resolution geophysical data, with both academia and industry relying on extensive coring and stratigraphic correlations.

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