Distribution of noise sources for seismic interferometry

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1470-1484

  Harmon, Nicholas ^a   Rychert, Catherine ^b   Gerstoft, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Seismic anisotropy; Seismic attenuation; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; ANISOTROPIC PHASE; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; BEAM FORMERS; FOURIER; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LEAST-SQUARES INVERSION; LOSSLESS; NOISE CORRELATION; NOISE CORRELATION FUNCTION; NOISE DENSITY; NOISE SOURCE; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PLANE WAVE; POTENTIAL ERRORS; RESOLVE PEAKS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC NOISE; SOURCE DENSITY; SOURCE DISTRIBUTION; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THREE MODELS; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; UNKNOWN PARAMETERS; VERTICAL COMPONENT;

ANISOTROPY; BEAMFORMING; ELASTIC WAVES; ESTIMATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PHASE VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GREEN FUNCTION; INTERFEROMETRY; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NOISE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STACKING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78449251546     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04802.x     Document Type: Article

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