The inverse problem of refraction travel times, part I: Types of Geophysical Nonuniqueness through Minimization

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 447-459

  Ivanov, Julian ^a   Miller, Richard D ^a   Xia, Jianghai ^a   Steeples, Don ^b   Park, Choon B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ill posed; Inversion; Nonlinear; Nonuniqueness; Overdetermined Problems

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; DATA PROCESSING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFRACTION; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 12344286122     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-004-2615-1     Document Type: Article

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