Misfit functions for full waveform inversion based on instantaneous phase and envelope measurements

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 845-870

  Bozdaǧ, Ebru ^a   Trampert, Jeannot ^b   Tromp, Jeroen ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body waves; Computational seismology; Seismic tomography; Surface waves and free oscillations; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

3-D NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ADJOINTS; AMPLITUDE INFORMATION; ANELASTIC PROPERTIES; BODY WAVES; COMPUTATIONAL SEISMOLOGY; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DATA COVERAGE; DIRECT CONTROL; ENVELOPE RATIO; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; FULL-WAVEFORMS; GAIN INSIGHT; HILBERT; HILBERT TRANSFORM; INSTANTANEOUS PHASE; LOW-AMPLITUDE; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOURS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY KERNELS; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; TIME DOMAIN; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE FORMS;

PHASE MEASUREMENT; SEISMOGRAPHS; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE; ANELASTICITY; BODY WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAM; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE EQUATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 79954548761     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04970.x     Document Type: Article

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