Estimating statistical parameters of an elastic random medium from traveltime fluctuations of refracted waves

Waves in Random and Complex Media

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 43-60

  Kravtsov, Yu A ^a,b   Kaslilar, A ^c,e   Shapiro, S A ^c   Buske, S ^c   Muller T ^d  

^a MARITIME UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

^b Polish Academy of Sciences   (Poland)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

ELASTIC RANDOM MEDIUM; INVERSE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TRAVELTIME FLUCTUATIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFRACTION;

EID: 23044453578     PISSN: 17455030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17455030500052478     Document Type: Article

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