Caveats in multi-modal inversion of seismic surface wavefields

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 163, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1215-1233

  Levshin, A L ^a   Panza, G F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inversion; Phase and group velocity; Surface waves; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; PHASE VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE DISPERSION;

EID: 33746399364     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-006-0069-3     Document Type: Article

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