Splines on the three-dimensional ball and their application to seismic body wave tomography

Inverse Problems

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Amirbekyan, Abel ^a   Michel, Volker ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EARTHQUAKES; ERROR ANALYSIS; SPLINES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

EARTHQUAKE WAVES; SEISMIC BODY WAVES; TRAVEL-TIME DATA;

SEISMIC WAVES;

EID: 41849087683     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: 13616420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/24/1/015022     Document Type: Article

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