Optimal 3-D traveltime tomography

Geophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1053-1061

  Eppstein, Margaret J ^a   Dougherty, David E ^a  

^a University of Vermont   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; KALMAN FILTERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN FILTERS; GEOSTATISTICS; TRAVELTIME TOMOGRAPHY;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DATA PROCESSING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032075947     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444383     Document Type: Article

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