The Collaborative Seismic Earth Model: Generation 1

We present a general concept for evolutionary, collaborative, multiscale inversion of geophysical data, specifically applied to the construction of a first-generation Collaborative Seismic Earth Model. This is intended to address the limited resources of individual researchers and the often limited use of previously accumulated knowledge. Model evolution rests on a Bayesian updating scheme, simplified into a deterministic method that honors todays computational restrictions. The scheme is able to harness distributed human and computing power. It furthermore handles contradicting updates, as well as variable parameterizations of different model refinements or different inversion techniques. The first-generation Collaborative Seismic Earth Model comprises 12 refinements from full seismic waveform inversion, ranging from regional crustal- to continental-scale models. A global full-waveform inversion ensures that regional refinements translate into whole-Earth structure.

@article{id2372,
  author = {Fichtner, Andreas   and van Herwaarden, Dirk-Philip  and Afanasiev, Michael and Simute, Saule and Krischer, Lion and Samubuk-Sabuncu, Yesim and Taymaz, Tuncay  and Colli, Lorenzo    and Saygin, Erdinc and Villasenor, Antonio and Trampert, Jeannot and Cupillard, Paul  and Bunge, Hans-Peter and Igel, Heiner},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077338},
  journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
  language = {en},
  title = {The Collaborative Seismic Earth Model: Generation 1},
  volume = {45},
  year = {2018},
}

%O Journal Article
%A Fichtner, Andreas  
%A van Herwaarden, Dirk-Philip 
%A Afanasiev, Michael
%A Simute, Saule
%A Krischer, Lion
%A Samubuk-Sabuncu, Yesim
%A Taymaz, Tuncay 
%A Colli, Lorenzo   
%A Saygin, Erdinc
%A Villasenor, Antonio
%A Trampert, Jeannot
%A Cupillard, Paul 
%A Bunge, Hans-Peter
%A Igel, Heiner
%R https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077338
%J Geophysical Research Letters
%G en
%T The Collaborative Seismic Earth Model: Generation 1
%V 45
%D 2018