Automatic zonation of urban areas based on the similarity of H/V spectral ratios

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1404-1412

  Bragato, P L ^a   Laurenzano, G ^a   Barnaba, C ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; ITALY; OPTIMIZATION; TRIANGULATION;

DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION; HORIZONTAL-TO-VERTICAL (H/V) SPECTRAL RATIOS;

ZONING;

AMBIENT NOISE; DATA SET; GENETIC ALGORITHM; OPTIMIZATION; SEISMIC DATA; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TRIANGULATION; URBAN AREA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 35548936010     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060245     Document Type: Article

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