How can the ISC location procedures be improved?

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-26

  Schweitzer, Johannes ^a  

^a NORSAR   (Norway)

Author keywords

Event location; ISC

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGIC MODELS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; ITERATIVE METHODS; SEISMOLOGY;

EVENT LOCATION; INTERNATIONAL SEISMOLOGICAL CENTRE (ISC); TRAVEL-TIME CALCULATIONS;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DATA INVERSION; EARTH ROTATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 33748192032     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.03.017     Document Type: Article

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