Reza Ghanati

Associate Professor

Update: 2026-09-23

Reza Ghanati

موسسه ژئوفیزیک / گروه آموزشی فیزیک زمین

Journal Paper

  1. "Improved Salt Dome Imaging Through Mixed L_p-Norm Regularized Gravity Inversion: Insights from Northwest Iran"
    Bardiya Sadraeifar, Reza Ghanati, Rezvan Soltanabadi, Mojtaba Hosseini
    Natural Resources Research, Vol. 35, No 6, 2026
  2. "Tractable approximate Gaussian inference for interpretable mineral prospectivity modelling"
    Lahiru Nagasingha, Charles Berube, Reza Ghanati
    Applied Computing and Geosciences, Vol. 29, No 1, 2026
  3. "Improved Joint Inversion of Surface-NMR and Resistivity Data Using Homotopy Continuation Optimization"
    Mehdi Fallahsafari, Reza Ghanati, Mike Mueller-Petke
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, Vol. 63, No 1, pp.1-19, 2025
  4. "A generative neural network approach to uncertainty and risk-return analysis in mineral prospectivity modelling"
    Lahiru Nagasingha, Charles Berube, Reza Ghanati
    ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS, Vol. 186, No 11, 2025
  5. "Complex-valued neural networks for spectral induced polarization applications"
    Charles Berube, Sebastien Gagnon, Rachel Kenko, Jean-Luc Gagnon, Lahiru Nagasingha, Reza Ghanati, Frederique Baron
    GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, Vol. 243, No 2, pp.1-17, 2025
  6. "Joint interpretation of potential field data using independent Lpq norm inversion and geological modeling: Application to Iron targeting in Central Iran"
    Bardiya Sadraeifar, Reza Ghanati, Mohammad Hakim Rezayee, Maysam Abedi, [] [], Vahid Ebrahimzadeh Ardestani
    PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS, Vol. 362, 2025
  7. "A non-parametric resampling method for uncertainty analysis of geophysical inverse problems"
    Ashkan Rahmati Shad, Reza Ghanati, Mehdi Fallahsafari
    International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering, Vol. 59, No 1, 2025
  8. "Uncertainty quantification in electrical resistivity tomography inversion: hybridizing block-wise bootstrapping with geostatistics"
    Zahra Tafaghod khabaz, Reza Ghanati, Charles Berube
    GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, Vol. 239, No 3, pp.1576-1596, 2024
  9. "Time-domain induced polarization tomography inversion"
    Seyyed Sajjad Pourhashemi, Reza Ghanati, Ashkan Aliheidari
    International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering, Vol. 58, No 2, pp.153-160, 2024
  10. "An efficient algorithm to retrieve multiple fundamental frequencies of harmonic interference in surface-NMR measurements"
    Reza Ghanati, Trevor Irons, Mohammad Reza Hatami
    GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, Vol. 238, No 2, pp.742-755, 2024
  11. "Spectral Induced Polarization Tomography Inversion: Hybridizing Homotopic Continuation with Bayesian Inversion"
    Mohamad Sadegh Roudsari, Reza Ghanati, Charles L. Berube
    GEOPHYSICS, Vol. 89, No 5, pp.1-63, 2024
  12. "Modified non-local means: A novel denoising approach to process gravity field data"
    Hanbing Ai., Ahmad Alvandi, Reza Ghanati, Luan Thanh Pham, Daniel Nasui, Saad Alarifi, Ahmed M. Eldosouky
    Open Geosciences, Vol. 15, No 1, pp.1-15, 2023
  13. "Incorporating Topographic Variations on Electrical Resistance Tomography"
    Reza Ghanati, Mehdi Fallahsafari
    International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering, Vol. 57, No 3, pp.335-341, 2023
  14. "Using magnetic data for estimating the location of lateral boundaries and the depth of the shallow salt dome of Aji-Chai, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran"
    Ahmad Alvandi, Reza Ghanati
    International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering, Vol. 57, No 3, 2023
  15. "Spectral induced polarization forward modeling in the framework of finite difference scheme"
    Ashkan Aliheidari, Seyyed sagad Pourhashemi, Reza Ghanati
    International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering, Vol. 57, No 2, 2023
  16. "Markov Chain Monte Carlo Non-linear Geophysical Inversion with an Improved Proposal Distribution: Application to Geo-electrical Data"
    Zahra Tafaghod khabaz, Reza Ghanati
    Journal of the Earth and Space Physics, Vol. 48, No 4, pp.107-124, 2023
  17. "Fréchet Derivatives calculation for electrical resistivity imaging using forward matrix method"
    Reza Ghanati, مهدی فلاح صفری
    Iranian Journal of Geophysics (IJG), Vol. 15, No 4, pp.153-163, 2022
  18. "DC Electrical Resistance Tomography Inversion"
    مهدی فلاح صفری , Reza Ghanati
    Journal of the Earth and Space Physics, Vol. 47, No 4, pp.87-98, 2022
  19. "A homotopy continuation inversion of geoelectrical sounding data"
    Reza Ghanati, Mike Muller-Petke
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, Vol. 191, No 2, 2021
  20. "Hidden layer imaging using joint inversion of P-wave travel-time and electrical resistivity data"
    Mostafa Yari, Majid Nabi Bidhendi, Reza Ghanati, Zaher Hasan Shomali
    Near Surface Geophysics, Vol. 19, No 3, 2021
  21. "A fast multi-exponential inversion of magnetic resonance sounding using iterative Lanczos bidiagonalization algorithm"
    Falahsafari Mehdi, Reza Ghanati, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi, Mike Mueller-Petke
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, Vol. 175, 2020
  22. "RESIP2DMODE: A MATLAB-Based 2D Resistivity and Induced Polarization Forward Modeling Software"
    Reza Ghanati, Yosra Azadi, Razieh Fakhimi
    Iranian Journal of Geophysics (IJG), Vol. 13, No 4, pp.60-78, 2020
  23. "Estimation of Harmonic Interference Parameters of Surface- NMR Signal using an Adaptive Method and Residual Signal Power"
    Reza Ghanati, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi
    Iranian Journal of Geophysics (IJG), Vol. 11, No 5, 2018
  24. "Statistical de-spiking and harmonic interference cancellation from surface-NMR signals via a state-conditioned filter and modified Nyman-Gaiser method"
    Reza Ghanati, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi
    Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata, Vol. 58, No 3, 2017
  25. "Regularized nonlinear inversion of magnetic anomalies of simple geometric models using Occam’s method: an application to the Morvarid iron-apatite deposit in Iran"
    Reza Ghanati, Hossein Ali Ghari, Moslem Fatehi
    Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica Hungarica, Vol. 52, No 4, pp.555-580, 2017
  26. "Filtering and parameter estimation of surface-NMR data using singular spectrum analysis"
    Reza Ghanati, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi, Rahim Mahmoudvand, Mahdi Fallah-safari
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, Vol. 130, No 130, pp.118-130, 2016
  27. "Surface nuclear magnetic resonance signals recovery by integration of a non-linear decomposition method with statistical"
    Reza Ghanati, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi, Mahdi Fallah-safari
    GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING, Vol. 64, No 2, pp.489-504, 2015
  28. "Comment on: Time-Based Noise Removal From Magnetic Resonance Sounding"
    Reza Ghanati, Mahdi Fallah-safari
    International Journal of Innovative Computing Information and Control, Vol. 11, No 1, pp.387-390, 2015
  29. "Joint application of a statistical optimization process and Empirical Mode Decomposition to Magnetic Resonanc Sounding Noise Cancelation"
    Reza Ghanati, Mahdi Fallah-safari, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, Vol. 111, No 111, 2014
  30. "Influence of noise estimation on Electrical Resistivity Tomography Data Inversion"
    Yosra Azadi, Reza Ghanati
    Journal of the Earth and Space Physics, Vol. 49, No 1, 2644
  31. "Inverse Modeling of Airborne Time-Domain Electromagnetic (ATEM) Data"
    Javad Babaei, Reza Ghanati
    Journal of the Earth and Space Physics, Vol. 52, No 2, pp.271-291, 2026
  32. "Analysis of the effect of data weighting matrix on the accuracy of electrical resistivity tomography data inversion"
    Mehdi Fallahsafari, Reza Ghanati
    Iranian Journal of Geophysics (IJG), Vol. 20, No 1, pp.121-136, 2026
  33. "Inverse Modeling of Time-Domain Induced Polarization Data with the Aim of Imaging Mineralization Zones"
    Amir Hossein Zia, Reza Ghanati, Mehdi Fallahsafari
    Journal of the Earth and Space Physics, Vol. 51, No 3, pp.571-592, 2025
  34. "Estimating Depth of Investigation in Electrical Resistivity Tomography Inverse Modelling"
    [] [], Reza Ghanati
    Iranian Journal of Geophysics (IJG), Vol. 19, No 4, pp.18-34, 2025
  35. "Simultaneous Estimation of Smooth and Blocky Structures in Tomographic Inversion of Electrical Resistivity Data"
    Pardis Salehi, Reza Ghanati
    Iranian Journal of Geophysics (IJG), Vol. 19, No 4, pp.1-17, 2025
  36. "Analyzing Dependency and Correlation of Cole-Cole Model Parameters in Spectral Induced Polarization Using Bayesian Inference"
    Mohamad Sadegh Roudsari, Reza Ghanati
    Journal of the Earth and Space Physics, Vol. 51, No 1, pp.45-64, 2025
  37. "Joint sets identification and determination of resistivity orientation by analyzing the results of square array azimuthal resistivity, in the west of Sabzevar ophiolite"
    Alireza Shirzadi, Reza Ghanati
    Journal of the Earth and Space Physics, Vol. 50, No 3, pp.595-616, 2024
  38. "Study of Chromite Ore in the West of Sabzevar Ophiolite (Foroomad) Using ERT and VLF-EM Geophysical Methods"
    Alireza Shirzadi, Reza Ghanati
    Journal of Mining Engineering, Vol. 19, No 63, pp.41-65, 2024
  39. "Time-Varying Harmonic Noise Cancellation Using Time-Domain Remote Reference Loop Method"
    Adnan Sharafi, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi, Reza Ghanati, حمیدرضا شیروانی مهدوی
    Journal of the Earth and Space Physics, Vol. 49, No 2, 2023
  40. "Quantitative Investigation of Effective Parameters on Resolution and Penetration Depth of MRS Data Using Singular Value Decomposition"
    Fatemeh Alamgard, Reza Ghanati
    Iranian Journal of Geophysics (IJG), Vol. 17, No 2, 2023
  41. "Investigation of Smooth and Block inversion Characteristics of Electrical Resistivity Data"
    Zahra Tafaghod khabaz, Reza Ghanati
    Scientific Quarterly Journal, GEOSCIENCES, Vol. 32, No 3, 2022
  42. "Resistivity and IP Tomography to determine Overburden-Bedrock Interface: A case study of Ilam Embankment dam"
    Morteza Azizlou, Reza Ghanati, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi
    Journal of the Earth and Space Physics, Vol. 48, No 3, pp.575-592, 2022
  43. "Nonlinear Unconstrained Inversion of Geomagnetic Data Using Sub-Problem Trust-Region Algorithm"
    Rouhollah Faridi, Reza Ghanati
    Iranian Journal of Geophysics (IJG), Vol. 14, No 3, pp.85-103, 2020
  44. "Linear and Non-nlinear Approximations based Integral Equation Method in Marin EM field Modeling"
    [] [], Reza Ghanati
    Applied Geophysical Research, Vol. 7, No 2, 2020
  45. "Water Content and Relaxation Time Estimation Using Full-Wave Form Inversion of MRS Signal"
    Zahra Esmaeili, Reza Ghanati, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi
    Journal of the Earth and Space Physics, Vol. 46, No 2, 2020
  46. "Water content inversion of MRS data a case study of Nineh Mahallat, central Iran"
    Mahdi Fallah-safari, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi, Reza Ghanati
    Journal of the Earth and Space Physics, Vol. 44, No 3, 2018

Conference Paper

  1. "Uncertainty Quantification in ERT Data Inversion"
    Zahra Tafaghod Khabaz, Reza Ghanati
    87th EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition, 2026
  2. "A Semi-Analytical Framework for ERT Sensitivity Matrix Evaluation"
    Yosra Azadi, Reza Ghanati
    14Th Iranian Mining Engineering Conference, 2025
  3. "Optimized Two-Dimensional Gauss–Legendre Quadrature for Efficient Jacobian Computation"
    Yosra Azadi, Reza Ghanati
    The 7th Applied Geophysics Conference in Oil Exploration, 2025
  4. "On Calculation of ERI Sensitivity Matrix"
    Mehdi Fallahsafari, Reza Ghanati
    13th Iranian Mining Engineering Conference, 2025
  5. "Bayesian Analysis of Parameter Correlarions in the Cole-Cole Model for Spectral Induced Polarization Tomography"
    Reza Ghanati
    21the iranian national geophysical conference, 2024
  6. "Assessing Slope Stability using Geoelectrical Method: A Case Study"
    Rouhollah Faridi, Reza Ghanati
    The first conference on applied geophysics in mines, 2024
  7. "Time-Domain Induced Polarization Tomography Inversion"
    Seyyed Sajjad Pourhashemi, Reza Ghanati
    The first conference on applied geophysics in mines, 2024
  8. "Time-Lapse Marine CSEM Modeling in the Frame of Linear and Non-Linear Approximations"
    Maryam Bayat, Reza Ghanati
    84th EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition, 2023
  9. "Time-Lapse Marine CSEM Modeling in the Framework of Linear and Non-Linear Approximation"
    Maryam Bayat, Reza Ghanati
    european geoscience union 23, 2023
  10. "Time-Lapse Marine CSEM Modeling Using Linear and Non-Linear Approximation"
    [] [], Reza Ghanati
    20the iranian national geophysical conference, 2022
  11. "Bayesian Inversion with an Improved Proposal Distribution"
    Reza Ghanati, Zahra Tafaghod khabaz
    20the iranian national geophysical conference, 2022
  12. "Forward Modeling of Marine Csem Data Using an Integral Equation with T-Matrix and Extended Born Approximations"
    Maryam Bayat, Reza Ghanati
    83rd EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition, 2022
  13. "Sensitivity Function Computation of Electrical Resistance Imaging Using Forward Matrix Method"
    Reza Ghanati
    The 5th Seminar Petroleum Geophysical Exploration, 2021
  14. "A Comparative View on Integral Equation Approximations for Forward Modeling of Marine CSEM Data"
    Maryam Bayat, Reza Ghanati
    The 5th Seminar Petroleum Geophysical Exploration, 2021
  15. "A Homotopy Optimization Method for Non-Linear Inversion of Geoelectrical Sounding Data"
    Zahra Esmaeili, Reza Ghanati, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi
    25th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 2019
  16. "Nonlinear Unconstrained Inversion of Magnetic Anomalies Using Sub-problem Trust-Region Algorithm"
    Rouhollah Faridi, Reza Ghanati
    81st EAGE Conference & Exhibition 2019, 2019
  17. "A Decision - Based Algorithm for Surface - NMR signal Despiking"
    Reza Ghanati, Mike Muller Petke
    The 7th International Workshop on Magnetic Resonance, 2018
  18. "Full Envelope Inversion of Surface-NMR Data for Retrieval of Hydro-geophysical Characterization"
    Reza Ghanati, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi
    The 18 th Iranian Geophysical Conference–May, 2018, 2018
  19. "Harmonic Noise Suppression of Surface-NMR signals Using Modified Nyman-Gaiser Estimation and Signal Power"
    Reza Ghanati, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi
    The 17 th Iranian Geophysical Conference–May, 2016, 2016
  20. "Nonlinear Inverse Modeling of Magnetic Anomalies due to Thin Sheets and Cylinders Using Occam’s Method"
    Reza Ghanati, Hossein Ali Ghari, Mahmood Mirzaei, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi
    8th Congress of the Balkan Geophysical Society, 2015
  21. "Detection of Reservoir Fractures Using Curvature Attribute and Comparison with Similarity Attribute"
    Reza Ghanati, N. N. Abbasi, Mohammad Ali Riahi
    KazGeo 2012 – Existing Resources, New Horizons, 2012
  22. "Detection of Reservoir Fracture Using Curvatures Attribute and Comparison with Similarity Attribute"
    Reza Ghanati, Nasir Abbasi, Mohammad Ali Riahi
    EAGE, KazGeo – Existing Resources, New Horizons Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2012
  23. "Application of Instantaneous Spectral Attributes to Detect Oil-filled Channels"
    Reza Mohebian, Reza Ghanati
    74th EAGE Conference and Exhibition incorporating EUROPEC 2012, 2012
  24. "Time-Domain Induced Polarization Tomography Inversion for Exploration of Alteration Zones Corresponding to Mineralization"
    Amir Hossein Zia, Reza Ghanati, Mehdi Fallahsafari
    14Th Iranian Mining Engineering Conference, 2025
  25. "Uncertainty Quantification in Inverse Modeling of Induced Polarization Tomography Data"
    Ashkan Rahmati Shad, Reza Ghanati, Mehdi Fallahsafari
    14Th Iranian Mining Engineering Conference, 2025
  26. "Spectral Parameters Reterieval from Time-domain Induced Polarization Tomography Inversion"
    [] [], Reza Ghanati, Mehdi Fallahsafari
    14Th Iranian Mining Engineering Conference, 2025
  27. "Inverse Modeling of Airborne Time-Domain Electromagnetic Data"
    Reza Ghanati, Javad Babaei
    14Th Iranian Mining Engineering Conference, 2025
  28. "Development of Non-Parametric Resampling Algorithms for Uncertainty Analysis in Inverse Polarization Tomography Modeling"
    Ashkan Rahmati Shad, Reza Ghanati, Mehdi Fallahsafari
    The 7th Applied Geophysics Conference in Oil Exploration, 2025
  29. "Imaging Alteration Zones Using Time-Domain Induced Polarization Tomography"
    Amir Hossein Zia, Reza Ghanati, Mehdi Fallahsafari
    The 7th Applied Geophysics Conference in Oil Exploration, 2025
  30. "Study of Chromite Ore in the West of Sabzevar Ophiolite (Foroomad) Using ERT and VLF-EM Geophysical Methods"
    Alireza Shirzadi, Reza Ghanati
    21the iranian national geophysical conference, 2024
  31. "Simultaneous Estimation of Smooth and Blocky Structures in Tomographic Inversion of Electrical Resistivity Data"
    Pardis Salehi, Reza Ghanati
    21the iranian national geophysical conference, 2024
  32. "Electrical tomography to visualize the boundary of layers: a case study"
    Morteza Azizlou, Reza Ghanati
    The first conference on applied geophysics in mines, 2024
  33. "Detection of topography effects in forward modeling of electrical resistivity tomography data"
    Mehdi Fallahsafari, Reza Ghanati
    The first Conference on Applied Geophysics in Mines, 2024
  34. "Incorporating of Topography into Electrical Resistance Tomography"
    Mehdi Fallahsafari, Reza Ghanati
    12th Iranian Mining Engineering conference, 2024
  35. "Frequency-domain induced polarization forward modeling using finite difference method"
    Ashkan Aliheidari, Reza Ghanati
    20the iranian national geophysical conference, 2022
  36. "Time-domain induced polarization forward modeling using finite difference method"
    Seyyed sagad Pourhashemi, Reza Ghanati
    20the iranian national geophysical conference, 2022
  37. "Reducing the effect of casing and backfilling in nuclear offshore Geotechnical well logging studies"
    Seyed Mohsen Rafieipur, Reza Ghanati, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi
    20the iranian national geophysical conference, 2022
  38. "Uncertainty analysis of Inverse Problems using the bootstrap re-sampling method"
    Zahra Vahab oghli, Reza Ghanati
    20the iranian national geophysical conference, 2022
  39. "Analysis of Effective Parameters on the Resolution and Reliable Depth of MRS Data"
    Fatemeh Alamgard, Reza Ghanati
    20the iranian national geophysical conference, 2022
  40. "Surface-NMR resolution study"
    Fatemeh Alamgard, Reza Ghanati, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi
    The 40th National Geosciences Congress, 2022
  41. "Electrical Resistivity Tomography to deterct overburden and bedrock interface: A case study form Gelal dam"
    Morteza Azizlou, Reza Ghanati, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi
    The 40th National Geosciences Congress, 2022
  42. "Inverse Modeling of Geo-Electric Data Using MCMC method"
    [] [], Reza Ghanati, Seyed Mahmoud Taheri, Seyed Morteza Amini
    4th International Conference on Soft Computing, 2021
  43. "Application of GLCM pattern based attributes on GPR sections"
    Ayda Azad Khorasani, Hosein Hashemi, Reza Ghanati
    19th Geophysics Conference of Iran, 2020
  44. "Nonlinear Unconstrained Inversion of Geophysical Data Using Sub-Problem Trust-Region Algorithm"
    Rouhollah Faridi, Reza Ghanati
    The 19th Iranian Geophysical Conference, 2020
  45. "Forward Modelling of MCSEM Data Using Integral Equation with Born Approximation"
    Maryam Bayat, Reza Ghanati
    The first natinal conference on signal and image processing in geophysics, 2019
  46. "Linear Inversion of Magnetic Resonance Sounding using Tikhonov Regularization"
    Mahdi Fallah-safari, Mohammad Kazem Hafizi, Reza Ghanati
    35th National Geosciences Conference, 2017