Uncertainty analysis in matched-field geoacoustic inversions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 197-207

  Huang, Chen Fen ^a   Gerstoft, Peter ^a   Hodgkiss, William S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BAYESIAN APPROACH; ERROR VARIANCE; GAUSSIAN ERROR MODEL; GEOACOUSTIC INVERSION;

UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; ERROR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 30944469668     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2139075     Document Type: Article

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