Nonlinear inversion of electrode-type resistivity measurements

Deals with the inversion of low-frequency electrode-type resistivity measurements for the conductivity distribution in a two-dimensional axisymmetric medium. It is well known that the inversion of such transverse magnetic measurements is much more nonlinear than that of transverse electric measurements. The distorted Born iterative method (DBIM) is applied to solve the nonlinear inverse problem. In each iteration of the DBIM, an efficient numerical mode-matching (NMM) method is used as a forward solver. In addition to its efficiency in solving for the predicted data, the NMM method gives a semianalytic expression for the partial derivatives of the Green's function required in the inversion. Several numerical results are presented to demonstrate the applications of the DBIM, and to address several practical issues related to the performance of the nonlinear inversion scheme. Because of the fast forward modeling and semianalytic Green's function available due to the NMM method, the inversion is fast and is practical for the interpretation of measurement data. >

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