Analysis of asymmetric multipathing with a generalization of the double-beam method

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 737-749

  Kruger F ^a   Scherbaum, F ^b   Weber, M ^c   Schlittenhardt, J ^d  

^a Seismologisches Z   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY METHOD; BEAMFORMING; DOUBLE BEAM METHOD; MULTIPATHING; NUCLEAR EXPLOSION;

EID: 0030442031     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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