Articles | Volume 12, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-2941-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-2941-2019
Development and technical paper
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15 Jul 2019
Development and technical paper |  | 15 Jul 2019

Efficiency and robustness in Monte Carlo sampling for 3-D geophysical inversions with Obsidian v0.1.2: setting up for success

Richard Scalzo, David Kohn, Hugo Olierook, Gregory Houseman, Rohitash Chandra, Mark Girolami, and Sally Cripps

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Producing 3-D models of structures under the Earth's surface based on sensor data is a key problem in geophysics (for example, in mining exploration). There may be multiple models that explain the data well. We use the open-source Obsidian software to look at the efficiency of different methods for exploring the model space and attaching probabilities to models, leading to less biased results and a better idea of how sensor data interact with geological assumptions.