Three-dimensional magnetotelluric regularized inversion based on smoothness-constrained model

How to get the rapid and stable inversion results and reconstruct the clear subsurface resistivity structures is a focus problem in current magnetotelluric inversion. A stable solution of an ill-posed inverse problem was obtained by the regularization methods in which some desired structures were imposed to stabilize the inverse problem. By the smoothness-constrained model and approximate sensitivity method, the stable subsurface resistivity structures were reconstructed. The synthetic examples show that the smoothness-constrained regularized inversion method is effective and can be reasonable to reconstruct three-dimensional subsurface resistivity structures.