SEISMIC RAY TRACING USING ANN-BASED EIKONAL SOLVER

Abstract

In this work we investigate the potential of seismic ray tracing based on the seismic travel-time field (i.e., solution of the eikonal equation) computed using artificial neural networks and conventional finite-differences. In a series of numerical tests, we show that the network-based eikonal solver requires considerably less dense computational grid than the finite-difference method.