Refined techniques for data processing and two-dimensional inversion in magnetotelluric I: Tensor decomposition and dimensionality analysis

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2516-2526

  Cai, Jun Tao ^a,b   Chen, Xiao Bin ^a   Zhao, Guo Ze ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b Jiangsu Earthquake Administration   (China)

Author keywords

Conjugate impedance transformation; Dimensionality analysis; Local distortion; Magnetotelluric; Tensor decomposition

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; DECOMPOSITION; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; TRANSFORMATION;

EID: 79957846005     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2010.10.025     Document Type: Article

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