Suitability of short-period sensors for retrieving reliable H/V peaks for frequencies less than 1 Hz

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 671-681

  Strollo, A ^a   Parolai, S ^a   Jackel K H ^a   Marzorati, S ^b   Bindi, D ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MAGNETIC SENSORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REFRACTION; SEISMOLOGY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSORS; SEISMIC NOISE;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DATA ACQUISITION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; SEISMIC NOISE; SENSOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 42649103622     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070055     Document Type: Article

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