Continuous earthquake detection and classification using discrete hidden markov models

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1055-1066

  Beyreuther, Moritz ^a   Wassermann, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neural networks, fuzzy logic; Probability distributions; Seismic monitoring and test ban treaty verification; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; EARTHQUAKE; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC DATA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 57049115625     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03921.x     Document Type: Article

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