An unsupervised learning algorithm: Application to the discrimination of seismic events and quarry blasts in the vicinity of Istanbul

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-100

  Kuyuk, H S ^a   Yildirim, E ^a   Dogan, E ^a   Horasan, G ^a  

^a SAKARYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ESTIMATION METHOD; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; LEARNING; SEISMOGRAM; SELF ORGANIZATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 78651313990     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-93-2011     Document Type: Article

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