3-D inversion of gravity and magnetic data with depth resolution

GEOPHYSICS

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 452-460

  Fedi, Maurizio ^a   Rapolla, Antonio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; FUNCTIONS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GRAVITATIONAL PROSPECTING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIC PROSPECTING; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

DENSITY MODELS; MAGNETIZATION MODELS;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

DATA INVERSION; DATA PROCESSING; DEPTH DETERMINATION; GRAVITY DATA; MAGNETIC DATA;

EID: 0033102188     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444550     Document Type: Article

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