3D elastic full-waveform inversion for OBC data using the P-wave excitation amplitude

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Research reported in this publication was supported by competitive research funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. The authors would like to thank Statoil ASA and the Volve license partners ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Norway AS and Bayerngas Norge AS for the release of the Volve data. We would like to thank Marianne Houbiers from Statoil for providing some helpful suggestions and corrections. For computer time, this research used the resources of the Supercomputing Laboratory in KAUST. We thank the members of Seismic Wave Analysis Group (SWAG) in KAUST for helpful discussions.