Physics and Data-driven Seismic Data Analysis

This book is an attempt to bring together two perspectives: the physics-based tradition of geophysics and the emerging data-driven paradigm. Rather than treating them as competing approaches, the book emphasizes their complementarity. Physics offers interpretability, theoretical grounding, and generalization across contexts. Data-driven methods provide scalability, adaptability, and the ability to uncover patterns in complex, high-dimensional spaces. Together, they form a powerful toolkit for modern geophysical data analysis.