Dynamic smoothing in crosswell traveltime tomography

Geophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 168-176

  Nemeth, Tamas ^a   Normark, Egon ^b   Qin, Fuhao ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c Amerada Hess   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LOW PASS FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

ADAPTIVE REGULARIZATION; CROSSWELL TRAVELTIME TOMOGRAPHY;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

CROSSWELL TRAVELTIME TOMOGRAPHY; DYNAMIC SMOOTHING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030740607     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444115     Document Type: Article

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