Integrated Imaging of the Earth (eBook)

Max Moorkamp is a lecture in Geophysics in the Department of Geology at the University of Leicester in UK. He is currently the Associate Editor for Journal of Geophysical Research. Editor has published extensively in AGU, GRL, and JGR journals. Peter Lelièvre is a Research Scientist in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in the Newfoundland and Labrador Province in Canada. He has a few publications in the Wiley Geophysical Journal International. Niklas Linde is an Associate Professor in Environmental Geophysics at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in Switzerland. He has published extensively in AGU GRL and WRR journals and got a paper accepted recently in Wiley Wires Water journal. Amir Khan is a Senior Scientist/Lecturer in the Institute of Geophysics in Zurich, Switzerland. He has also published in AGU journals JGR, GRL and G-cubed.

Contributors vii

Foreword ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

1 Introduction
Max Moorkamp, Peter G Lelièvre, Niklas Linde, and Amir Khan 1

Part I: Theory 7

2 Inverse Methods: Problem Formulation and Probabilistic Solutions
Klaus Mosegaard and Thomas Mejer Hansen 9

3 Inference Networks in Earth Models with Multiple Components and Data
Miguel Bosch 29

4 Structural Coupling Approaches in Integrated Geophysical Imaging
Max A Meju and Luis A Gallardo 49

5 Post?]inversion Integration of Disparate Tomographic Models by Model Structure Analyses
Hendrik Paasche 69

6 Probabilistic Integration of Geo?]Information
Thomas Mejer Hansen, Knud Skou Cordua, Andrea Zunino, and Klaus Mosegaard 93

Part II: Applications 117

7 Joint Inversion in Hydrogeophysics and Near?]Surface Geophysics
Niklas Linde and Joseph Doetsch 119

8 Integrated Imaging for Mineral Exploration
Peter G Lelièvre and Colin G Farquharson 137

9 Joint Inversion in Hydrocarbon Exploration
Max Moorkamp, Björn Heincke, Marion Jegen, Richard W Hobbs, and Alan W Roberts 167

10 Imaging the Lithosphere and Upper Mantle: Where We Are At and Where We Are Going
Juan Carlos Afonso, Max Moorkamp, and Javier Fullea 191

11 Constitution and Structure of Earth's Mantle: Insights from Mineral Physics and Seismology
Andrea Zunino, Amir Khan, Paul Cupillard, and Klaus Mosegaard 219

Index 245