Efficient multiscale imaging of subsurface resistivity with uncertainty quantification using ensemble Kalman inversion

Geophysical Journal International - Tập 225 Số 2 - Trang 887-905 - 2021
Chak‐Hau Michael Tso1,2, Marco Iglesias3, Paul Wilkinson4, O. Kuras4, Jonathan Chambers4, Andrew Binley2
1Enrionmental Data Science Team, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster LA1 4AP, UK
2Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
3Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
4Geophysical Tomography Team, British Geological Survey, Keyworth NG12 5GG, UK

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SUMMARY

Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is widely used to image the Earth’s subsurface and has proven to be an extremely useful tool in application to hydrological problems. Conventional smoothness-constrained inversion of ERT data is efficient and robust, and consequently very popular. However, it does not resolve well sharp interfaces of a resistivity field and tends to reduce and smooth resistivity variations. These issues can be problematic in a range of hydrological or near-surface studies, for example mapping regolith-bedrock interfaces. While fully Bayesian approaches, such as those using Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling, can address the above issues, their very high computation cost makes them impractical for many applications. Ensemble Kalman inversion (EKI) offers a computationally efficient alternative by approximating the Bayesian posterior distribution in a derivative-free manner, which means only a relatively small number of ‘black-box’ model runs are required. Although common limitations for ensemble Kalman filter-type methods apply to EKI, it is both efficient and generally captures uncertainty patterns correctly. We propose the use of a new EKI-based framework for ERT which estimates a resistivity model and its uncertainty at a modest computational cost. Our EKI framework uses a level-set parametrization of the unknown resistivity to allow efficient estimation of discontinuous resistivity fields. Instead of estimating level-set parameters directly, we introduce a second step to characterize the spatial variability of the resistivity field and infer length scale hyperparameters directly. We demonstrate these features by applying the method to a series of synthetic and field examples. We also benchmark our results by comparing them to those obtained from standard smoothness-constrained inversion. Resultant resistivity images from EKI successfully capture arbitrarily shaped interfaces between resistivity zones and the inverted resistivities are close to the true values in synthetic cases. We highlight its readiness and applicability to similar problems in geophysics.

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