Solving spatial inverse problems using the probability perturbation method: An S-GEMS implementation

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1127-1141

  Li, Ting ^a   Caers, Jef ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

History matching; Inverse problem; Optimization; Python; S GEMS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA INVERSION; GEOSTATISTICS; INVERSE PROBLEM; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 45049084635     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2007.08.006     Document Type: Article

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