The influence of high frequency uncorrelated noise on first-break arrival times and crosshole traveltime tomography

Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 173-184

  Tronicke, Jens ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; RADAR TRACKING; TOMOGRAPHY;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION (AIC); PICKING ERRORS; TRAVELTIME TOMOGRAPHY; UNCORRELATED NOISE;

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

ARRIVAL TIME; GAUSSIAN METHOD; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34948898701     PISSN: 10831363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/JEEG12.2.173     Document Type: Article

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