Geoacoustic uncertainties from viscoelastic inversion of seabed reflection data

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 657-671

  Dosso, Stan E ^a   Holland, Charles W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inversion; Bottom loss (BL); Geoacoustic inversion; Reflection coefficients; Uncertainty estimation

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REFLECTION; SEDIMENTS; STATISTICAL METHODS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; VISCOELASTICITY;

BAYESIAN INVERSION; GEOACOUSTIC INVERSION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI PROBABILITY; SEABED REFLECTION DATA; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 33750142322     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2005.858358     Document Type: Article

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