Imaging subsurface objects by seismic P-wave tomography: Numerical and experimental validations

Near Surface Geophysics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 279-287

  Grandjean, Gilles ^a  

^a BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CIVIL ENGINEERING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGING METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; P-WAVE; SEISMIC WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; TOMOGRAPHY; URBAN AREA;

EID: 33749415551     PISSN: 15694445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3997/1873-0604.2005051     Document Type: Article

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