A trade-off solution between model resolution and covariance in surface-wave inversion

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1537-1547

  Xia, Jianghai ^a   Xu, Yixian ^b   Miller, Richard D ^a   Zeng, Chong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Model assessment; Model covariance matrix; Model resolution matrix; Singular values; Trade off solution

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRICES; DIRECT ASSESSMENT; ERROR BARS; ILL POSED; INVERSE MODELS; MODEL ASSESSMENT; MODEL RESOLUTION; MODEL RESOLUTION MATRIX; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS; RESOLUTION LEVEL; SINGULAR VALUES; TRADE-OFF SOLUTION; WAVE DATA;

COMMERCE; GEOPHYSICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; PARAMETERIZATION; RATING; SURFACE WAVES; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA INVERSION; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURFACE WAVE; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 79953327964     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0107-z     Document Type: Article

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