Generation of a pseudo-2D shear-wave velocity section by inversion of a series of 1D dispersion curves

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 115-124

  Luo, Yinhe ^a   Xia, Jianghai ^b   Liu, Jiangping ^a   Xu, Yixian ^a   Liu, Qingsheng ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross correlation; High frequency Rayleigh waves; Horizontal resolution; Phase shift scanning; Pseudo 2D S wave velocity section

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; SURFACE WAVES;

MULTICHANNEL ANALYSIS; PHASE-SHIFT SCANNING METHOD;

SHEAR WAVES;

DATA INVERSION; INTERPOLATION; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 41449086949     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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