Rayleigh-wave mode separation by high-resolution linear radon transform

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 254-264

  Luo, Yinhe ^a   Xia, Jianghai ^b   Miller, Richard D ^b   Xu, Yixian ^a   Liu, Jiangping ^a   Liu, Qingsheng ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Guided waves; Inverse theory; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEM; RADON TRANSFORM; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 70349983813     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04277.x     Document Type: Article

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