Advances in three-dimensional geoelectric forward solver techniques

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 740-752

  Blome, M ^a   Maurer, H R ^a   Schmidt, K ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Numerical solutions

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA INVERSION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 61349101513     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.04006.x     Document Type: Article

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