Identification of sources of potential fields with the continuous wavelet transform: Two-dimensional wavelets and multipolar approximations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Sailhac, Pascal ^a   Gibert, Dominique ^b  

^a UMR 7063   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Analytic signals; Guyane fran aise; Harmonic multipolar expansion; Magnetics; Upward continuation; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; POTENTIAL FIELD; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042384794     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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