Determination of the trajectory of a fireball using seismic network data

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1495-1509

  Pujol, Jose ^a,b   Rydelek, Paul ^a   Bohlen, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

FIREBALL; SEISMIC NETWORK; STANDARD LINEARIZATION TECHNIQUE; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAMS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; TRAJECTORY;

ARKANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24944473611     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040155     Document Type: Article

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