The special issue welcomes (but is not limited to) contributions presented at the session “Imaging and inversion to explore the Earth’s crust” of the 2018 EGU General Assembly and the 18th International Symposium on the Deep Seismic Profiling of the Continents and their Margins (SEISMIX 2018) held in Kraków, Poland. The biennial SEISMIX symposium is unique in bringing together the active- and passive-source seismic imaging communities and those who study the Earth from the exploration scale down to the continental scale.

We welcome contributions thematically embracing the main topics covered by the two events mentioned:

• advanced seismic imaging and inversion methods including FWI and interferometry
• innovative seismic acquisition and processing techniques
• joint inversion of multiple datasets
• seismic imaging for earth hazards, resources and near-surface applications
• passive continental margins (structure and processes)
• active continental margins (structure and processes)
• intra-continental deformation, collision and accretion
• continental rifts and sedimentary basins
• mid-ocean ridges and oceanic lithosphere
• the continental lithosphere.