Crosshole seismic waveform tomography - II. Resolution analysis

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1237-1248

  Rao, Ying ^a   Wang, Yanghua ^a   Morgan, Joanna V ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Resolution; Resolvability; Seismic inversion; Wave form tomography

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33747603476     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03031.x     Document Type: Article

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