Improving the spatial resolution of effective elastic thickness estimation with the fan wavelet transform

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1345-1354

  Kirby, J F ^a   Swain, C J ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Elastic thickness; Multitapers; South America; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC THICKNESS; GAUSSIAN WINDOW; MEAN VALUES; MORLET WAVELET; MULTITAPER METHODS; MULTITAPERS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC MODELS; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVELET METHODS; WAVELETS;

ESTIMATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ELASTIC PROPERTY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORM; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 80051563101     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.10.008     Document Type: Article

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