“…the nonuniqueness and ill-posedness phenomena, noise content, and also the insufficient number of observed data, inversion techniques are generally successfully used in geophysical parameter estimation studies with the help of some constraints and prior information. While improving the cost/error/objective function, which is the indicator of the fitness between the observed and the calculated geophysical data, the global minimum is searched in a model space using either a global optimization or a local optimization technique (Gallardo and Meju, 2004;Tarantola, 2005;Ekinci, 2008;Ekinci and Demirci, 2008;Fernández-Martínez et al, 2010;Mehanee et al, 2011;Göktürkler and Balkaya, 2012;Biswas and Sharma, 2014;Mehanee and Essa, 2015;Alkan and Balkaya, 2018). Gradient-based local optimization techniques are known to be faster in terms of convergence rates and computational cost, but their success strongly depends on the initial guess, which should be in the close neighborhood of the global minimum (Menke, 1989;Chunduru et al, 1997;Başokur et al, 2007;Ekinci and Demirci, 2008;Maiti et al, 2011;Ogunbo, 2018).…”