Nonuniqueness in traveltime tomography: Ensemble inference and cluster analysis

Geophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1209-1226

  Vasco, Don W ^a   Peterson Jr , John E ^a   Majer, Ernest L ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; BOREHOLES; DATA REDUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN APPROACH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONJUGATE GRADIENT INVERSIONS; ENSEMBLE INFERENCE; NONUNIQUENESS; SEISMIC TRAVELTIME TOMOGRAPHY;

SEISMOLOGY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVELTIME;

USA, OKLAHOMA, PAWNEE COUNTY, GYPSY PILOT SITE;

EID: 0030185761     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444040     Document Type: Article

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