Discrimination of quarry blasts and earthquakes in the vicinity of Istanbul using soft computing techniques

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1209-1217

  Yildirim, Eray ^a   Gülbaĝ, Ali ^a   Horasan, Gündüz ^a   Doĝan, Emrah ^a  

^a SAKARYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adaptive neural fuzzy inference system (ANFIS); Feedforward neural networks (FFNNs); Istanbul; Probabilistic neural network (PNN); Quarry blast

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE NEURAL FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEMS; ANALYTICAL METHOD; DATA SETS; DEVELOPED MODEL; EARTHQUAKE MONITORING; EARTHQUAKE RESEARCH; FAULT ZONE; FEED-FORWARD; INPUT VECTOR; ISTANBUL; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT ZONE; PEAK AMPLITUDE; PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS; SEISMIC EVENT; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SOFTCOMPUTING TECHNIQUES; TEST DATA; TRAINING AND TESTING;

EARTHQUAKES; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; QUARRIES; SOFT COMPUTING;

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BLASTING; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; FAULT ZONE; PROBABILITY; QUARRY; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 80051572873     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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