The invention discloses a method for inverting a near-
surface velocity model by utilizing preliminary waveforms. The method comprises
acoustic wave equation-based
wave field forward modeling and steepest descent-based
waveform inversion technologies, and comprises the following steps of 1, extracting time-domain preliminary waveform records and an initial model; 2, calculating a simulated
wave field and a
wave field residual by utilizing
acoustic wave equation staggered grid finite-difference forward modeling
simulation; 3, reversely propagating the wave field residual to obtain a
retransmission wave field; 4, calculating a gradient of a target function by utilizing the
retransmission wave field and a
forward propagation wave field, and calculating an updating step length; 5, updating a speed model; 6, inspecting whether the speed model is consistent with an iteration stopping condition, outputting the speed model if the speed model is consistent with the iteration stopping condition, otherwise returning to the step 2, and continuing iterative updating. According to the method, a
wave equation theory-based full-
waveform inversion technology is used as reference, and preliminary
waves with higher energy and more stable waveforms are used for inversion, so that the multiplicity of solutions of full-
waveform inversion is reduced, and the inversion stability and the calculation efficiency are improved; the accuracy of static correction and shallow
depth imaging is improved.