Hessian kernels of seismic data functionals based upon adjoint techniques

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 775-798

  Fichtner, Andreas ^a   Trampert, Jeannot ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Inverse theory; Seismic tomography; Theoretical seismology; Wave propagation; Wave scattering and diffraction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL SEISMOLOGY; INVERSE THEORY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL SEISMOLOGY; WAVE SCATTERING AND DIFFRACTION;

DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FORWARD SCATTERING;

BODY WAVE; INVERSE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE DIFFRACTION; WAVE FIELD; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE SCATTERING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 79954515404     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04966.x     Document Type: Article

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