Broad-band waveforms and robust processing for marine CSEM surveys

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 689-698

  Myer, David ^a   Constable, Steven ^a   Key, Kerry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fourier analysis; Marine electromagnetics; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

BINARY WAVEFORMS; BROAD BANDS; CLOSED FORM; CONTROLLED SOURCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHODS; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; IMPROVED METHODS; MARINE ELECTROMAGNETICS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; NOISE TRANSIENTS; ROBUST PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SINGLE FREQUENCY; SPECIAL PROPERTIES; SQUARE WAVES; TIME WINDOWS; VARIANCE ESTIMATE; WAVE FORMS;

ELECTROMAGNETISM; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER SERIES; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORM; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 78751542992     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04887.x     Document Type: Article

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