用自动微分实现快速水文电阻率成像,省去重复推导
An automatic-differentiation framework for time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography inversion of hydrologic dynamics

- 基于自动微分构建统一计算链,集成正演与反演全流程
- 相比传统方法提速约51倍,合成实验验证反演结果准确
- 支持直接反演含水量,适合多源数据融合的水文研究
时序电阻率断层成像(TL-ERT)可提供地下水文变化的空间分布信息。但长期监测序列的反演计算成本高,若修改数据拟合、正则化、模型参数化或岩电转换关系,通常需重新推导梯度并单独实现。本文提出AD-TLERT,一个基于自动微分的统一GPU加速框架,将模型参数化、可微岩电转换、正演模拟、数据残差、正则化及辅助约束整合为单一计算链。因此,不同反演形式可复用同一偏微分方程梯度实现,无需为每种情况重新推导完整敏感性。与pyGIMLi对比显示,前向响应、梯度和恢复的电阻率模型高度一致。在测试配置下,AD-TLERT实现约51倍加速。合成实验表明,反演选择影响恢复异常的幅度、形态与时序特征。通过传播嵌入岩电关系的梯度,AD-TLERT可直接反演含水量,其估计精度优于事后转换。实地应用进一步展示了如何结合ERT、温度与土壤湿度观测,揭示雪融驱动的山坡湿润过程。AD-TLERT为时序ERT反演与水文解释提供了高效灵活的解决方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (TL-ERT) provides spatially distributed information on subsurface hydrologic changes. However, inversion of long monitoring sequences is computationally demanding. Modifying the data misfit, regularization, model parameterization, or petrophysical transformation may also require new gradient derivations and separate implementations. Here, we present AD-TLERT, a unified, GPU-accelerated framework for time-lapse ERT inversion based on automatic differentiation. The framework integrates model parameterization, differentiable petrophysical transformations, forward modeling, data misfit, regularization and auxiliary constraints into a single computational chain. Alternative inversion formulations can therefore reuse the same PDE derivative implementation without re-deriving the complete ERT sensitivity for each case. Comparisons with pyGIMLi showed close agreement in the forward responses, gradients, and recovered resistivity models. Under the tested configuration, AD-TLERT achieved an approximately 51-fold speedup. Synthetic experiments showed that inversion choices affect the amplitude, geometry, and temporal behavior of recovered anomalies. By propagating gradients through the embedded petrophysical relationship, AD-TLERT enabled direct water-content inversion and yielded more accurate estimates than post-inversion conversion for the tested model. A field application further demonstrated how ERT, temperature, and soil-moisture observations can be combined to image snowmelt-driven hillslope wetting. AD-TLERT provides an efficient and flexible framework for time-lapse ERT inversion and hydrologic interpretation.
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