Gauss-Newton and full Newton methods in frequency-space seismic waveform inversion

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 341-362

  Pratt, R Gerhard ^a,c   Shin, Changsoo ^b   Hicks, G J ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffraction; Finite difference methods; Inversion; Numerical techniques; Seismic velocities; Wave equation

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC DATA PROCESSING; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

EID: 0031843118     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246x.1998.00498.x     Document Type: Article

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