Assessment of the reliability of 2D inversion of apparent resistivity data

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 293-316

  Olayinka, Abel I ^a,b   Yaramanci, Ugur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY; TECTONICS;

RESISTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; WENNER ARRAY;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

DATA INVERSION; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY;

EID: 0034162382     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2478.2000.00173.x     Document Type: Article

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