Improvement of seismological earth models by using data weighting in waveform inversion

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 681-694

  Takeuchi, Nozomu ^a,b   Kobayashi, Minoru ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Direct solution method; Earth's interior; Inverse problem; Synthetic seismograms

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; EARTH; NUMERICAL MODEL; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM;

EID: 4344713296     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02334.x     Document Type: Article

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