Inversion of controlled-source seismic tomography and gravity data with the self-adaptive wavelet parametrization of velocities and interfaces

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 619-630

  Tikhotsky, S ^a   Achauer, Ulrich ^b  

^a SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

Author keywords

Gravity anomalies and Earth Structure; Inverse theory; Seismic tomography; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA INVERSION; EARTH STRUCTURE; GRAVITY ANOMALY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSFORM; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 38349178585     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03648.x     Document Type: Article

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