Tomography of joint P-wave traveltime and polarization data: A simple approach for media with low to moderate velocity gradients

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1796-1807

  Song, Lin Ping ^a   Every, A G ^a   Wright, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEARIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POLARIZATION; VECTORS;

ELASTIC WAVE TOMOGRAPHY METHOD;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOISE; P WAVE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

EID: 0035041519     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1360238     Document Type: Article

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