GEOPHYSICAL INVERSE THEORY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss fundamental similarities and differences between inverse methods, as well as their benefits and drawbacks. Audience: Graduate 2. Determine estimation or inversion approaches that are appropriate for a particular geoscience-relevant problem. Audience: Graduate 3. Apply appropriate inverse methods to geoscience problems such as seismic tomography, electrical resistivity imaging, source location estimation, and image processing. Audience: Graduate 4. Evaluate solutions to parameter estimation and inverse problems using concepts such as bias, null spaces, uncertainty, stability, resolution, nonlinearity, and over/under-fitting. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss fundamental similarities and differences between inverse methods, as well as their benefits and drawbacks. Audience: Graduate 2. Determine estimation or inversion approaches that are appropriate for a particular geoscience-relevant problem. Audience: Graduate 3. Apply appropriate inverse methods to geoscience problems such as seismic tomography, electrical resistivity imaging, source location estimation, and image processing. Audience: Graduate 4. Evaluate solutions to parameter estimation and inverse problems using concepts such as bias, null spaces, uncertainty, stability, resolution, nonlinearity, and over/under-fitting. Audience: Graduate