Inversion of seismic refraction data using genetic algorithms

Geophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1715-1727

  Boschetti, Fabio ^a   Dentith, Mike C ^a   List, Ron D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFRACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GEOPHYSICAL INVERSE PROBLEMS; SEISMIC REFRACTION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

GENETIC ALGORITHM; INVERSION; SEISMIC REFRACTION;

EID: 0030291145     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444089     Document Type: Article

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