Improved Monte Carlo inversion of surface wave data

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 357-371

  Socco, Laura Valentina ^a   Boiero, Daniele ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SAMPLING; SHEAR WAVES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

SUBSOIL MODELS; VELOCITY INVERSIONS;

SURFACE WAVES;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA INVERSION; GEOSTATISTICS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SURFACE WAVE;

EID: 42549169604     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2007.00678.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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