Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a non-linear, ill-posed, local data fitting technique. FWI looks to moves from an initial, low-wavenumber representation of the earth parameters to a broadband representation. During this iterative process a number of undesirable artifacts can map into our model parameter reconstruction. To mitigate these artifacts and to ensure a geologically consistent model parameter reconstruction, various preconditioning and/or regularization strategies have been proposed.This thesis details the construction of new, efficient, multi-dimensional, structurally-orientated wavenumber filters. A preconditioning strategy has been devised using these filters that we have successfully applied to FWI. The 1D analytical inverse L...