Application of The Approximation Neural Network Method for Interpretation of Geoelectric Field Data

Summary The paper presents an example of the application of approximation neural network structures to the problem of reconstructing the resistivity distributions of 2D and 3D piecewise linear media from geoelectric data. This problem is reduced to solving a nonlinear operator equation of the first kind. An algorithm was proposed [ Shimelevich et al, 2018 , Obornev et al, 2020 ] for finding an approximate solution of this equation with a total number of parameters of the order of ∼ n 10 ^ 3, based on the use of neural (Kolmogorov) networks of the multilayer perceptron type. This approach, which allows real-time data inversion, is illustrated both on model examples and on profile and areal field survey data.