Simultaneous iterative time-domain sparse deconvolution to teleseismic receiver functions

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 316-325

  Escalante, Christian ^a   Gu, Yu J ^a   Sacchi, Mauricio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Inversion; Sparse regularization; Teleseismic receiver functions

Indexed keywords

DECONVOLUTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; P-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 35248824973     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03511.x     Document Type: Article

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