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Stéphane Operto is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering, with a strong focus on Geophysics. Subfields of study include Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's work predominantly addresses topics related to seismic imaging and inversion techniques, seismic waves and analysis, and geophysical methods and applications. Additional research areas include hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, seismology and earthquake studies, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, as well as earthquake and tectonic studies.

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Stéphane Operto are the following:

  • Full waveform inversion by proximal Newton method using adaptive regularization, 2020, Geophysical Journal International
  • Helmholtz-equation solution in nonsmooth media by a physics-informed neural network incorporating quadratic terms and a perfectly matching layer condition, 2023, Geophysics
  • Mitigating the ill-posedness of first-arrival traveltime tomography using slopes: application to the eastern Nankai Trough (Japan) OBS data set, 2021, Geophysical Journal International
  • Extending the search space of full-waveform inversion beyond the single-scattering Born approximation: A tutorial review, 2023, Geophysics
  • Quantitative Photoacoustic Tomography Using Iteratively Refined Wavefield Reconstruction Inversion: A Simulation Study, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Stéphane Operto frequently collaborates with several coauthors including Hossein S. Aghamiry, Ali Gholami, Gaoshan Guo, Laure Combe, and A. Ribodetti. Their collaborative contributions span a significant number of scientific publications.

Their research is extensively published in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Geophysics, Geophysical Journal International, the Second International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy, and IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. Notably, arXiv features 10 of their works, while Geophysics accounts for 8 publications, and Geophysical Journal International for 6.

Best Publications

  • An overview of full-waveform inversion in exploration geophysics

    Jean Virieux;Stéphane Operto

  • Seismic imaging of complex onshore structures by 2D elastic frequency-domain full-waveform inversion

    Romain Brossier;Stéphane Operto;Jean Virieux

  • A guided tour of multiparameter full-waveform inversion with multicomponent data: From theory to practice

    S. Operto;Y. Gholami;V. Prieux;A. Ribodetti

  • 3D finite-difference frequency-domain modeling of visco-acoustic wave propagation using a massively parallel direct solver: A feasibility study

    Stéphane Operto;Jean Virieux;Patrick Amestoy;Jean-Yves L’Excellent

  • Multiscale imaging of complex structures from multifold wide-aperture seismic data by frequency-domain full-waveform tomography: application to a thrust belt

    C. Ravaut;S. Operto;L. Improta;J. Virieux

  • Mixed‐grid and staggered‐grid finite‐difference methods for frequency‐domain acoustic wave modelling

    Bernhard Hustedt;Stéphane Operto;Jean Virieux

  • Full Waveform Inversion and the Truncated Newton Method

    Ludovic Métivier;Romain Brossier;Jean Virieux;Stéphane Operto

  • Crustal seismic imaging from multifold ocean bottom seismometer data by frequency domain full waveform tomography: Application to the eastern Nankai trough

    Stéphane Operto;J. Virieux;J.-X. Dessa;G. Pascal

  • Which data residual norm for robust elastic frequency-domain full waveform inversion?

    Romain Brossier;Stéphane Operto;Jean Virieux

  • Multiparameter full waveform inversion of multicomponent ocean-bottom-cable data from the Valhall field. Part 1: imaging compressional wave speed, density and attenuation

    Vincent Prieux;Romain Brossier;Stéphane Operto;Jean Virieux

  • Quantitative imaging of complex structures from dense wide-aperture seismic data by multiscale traveltime and waveform inversions: a case study

    S. Operto;C. Ravaut;L. Improta;J. Virieux

  • Full waveform inversion and the truncated Newton method: quantitative imaging of complex subsurface structures

    Ludovic Métivier;François Bretaudeau;Romain Brossier;Stéphane Operto

  • Full waveform inversion of diving & reflected waves for velocity model building with impedance inversion based on scale separation

    Wei Zhou;Romain Brossier;Stéphane Operto;Jean Virieux

  • An efficient frequency-domain full waveform inversion method using simultaneous encoded sources

    Hafedh Ben-Hadj-Ali;Stéphane Operto;Jean Virieux

  • Which parameterization is suitable for acoustic vertical transverse isotropic full waveform inversion? Part 1: Sensitivity and trade-off analysis

    Yaser Gholami;Romain Brossier;Stéphane Operto;Alessandra Ribodetti

  • Efficient 3-D frequency-domain mono-parameter full-waveform inversion of ocean-bottom cable data: application to Valhall in the visco-acoustic vertical transverse isotropic approximation

    S. Operto;A. Miniussi;R. Brossier;L. Combe

  • High-resolution seismic attenuation imaging from wide-aperture onshore data by visco-acoustic frequency-domain full-waveform inversion

    M. Malinowski;S. Operto;A. Ribodetti

  • Velocity model building by 3D frequency-domain, full-waveform inversion of wide-aperture seismic data

    Hafedh Ben-Hadj-Ali;Stéphane Operto;Jean Virieux

  • Velocity model building from seismic reflection data by full‐waveform inversion

    Romain Brossier;Stéphane Operto;Jean Virieux

  • On the footprint of anisotropy on isotropic full waveform inversion: the Valhall case study

    Vincent Prieux;Romain Brossier;Yaser Gholami;Stéphane Operto

  • Full Waveform Inversion and the Truncated Newton Method

    Ludovic Métivier;Romain Brossier;Stéphane Operto;Jean Virieux

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Virieux
Jean Virieux Grenoble Alpes University
Guust Nolet
Guust Nolet Université Côte d'Azur
Philippe Charvis
Philippe Charvis Université Côte d'Azur
Anne Paul
Anne Paul Grenoble Alpes University
Gilles Grandjean
Gilles Grandjean French Geological Survey
Jacques Déverchère
Jacques Déverchère Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Yoshiyuki Kaneda
Yoshiyuki Kaneda Nagoya University
Nicolas Chamot-Rooke
Nicolas Chamot-Rooke École Normale Supérieure
Jean-Yves Collot
Jean-Yves Collot Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Martin Vallée
Martin Vallée Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

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