Numerical aspects of a spline-based multiresolution recovery of the harmonic mass density out of gravity functionals

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-16

  Michel, Volker ^a   Wolf, Kerstin ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gravity anomalies and Earth structure; Inverse theory; Numerical approximations and analysis; Satellite geodesy; Tomography; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

EARTH STRUCTURE; GEODESY; GRAVITY ANOMALY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSFORM; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 41249088440     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03700.x     Document Type: Article

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