Geophysical inversion with a neighbourhood algorithm--II. Appraising the ensemble

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 727-746

  Sambridge, Malcolm ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Numerical techniques; Receiver functions; Waveform inversion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA INVERSION; GEOPHYSICS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032695503     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1999.00900.x     Document Type: Article

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