Detection of seismic refraction signals using a variance fractal dimension technique

Geophysics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 286-292

  Jiao, Lingxiu ^a   Moon, Wooil M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; FRACTALS; GEOPHYSICS; PROBES; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SURVEYS;

SEISMIC REFLECTION SIGNALS; VARIANCE FRACTAL DIMENSION TECHNIQUES;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA PROCESSING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFRACTION;

EID: 0034035360     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444719     Document Type: Article

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