Three-dimensional gravity modelling and focusing inversion using rectangular meshes

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 966-979

  Commer, Michael ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gradiometry; Gravity; Inversion

Indexed keywords

A-DENSITY; COMPLEX MODEL; CONJUGATE GRADIENT; CONJUGATE GRADIENT SCHEMES; CUBIC CELLS; DEPTH RESOLUTION; FIELD DATA; GEOPHYSICAL MODELING; GRADIENT VECTORS; GRADIOMETRY; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; GRAVITY INVERSIONS; INVERSION; INVERSION SCHEME; KERNEL FUNCTION; NEAR-SURFACE; NON-LINEAR; PARAMETER SPACES; POTENTIAL FIELD; PRIOR INFORMATION; RECTANGULAR GRIDS; RECTANGULAR MESH; RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT; SEARCH DIRECTION; SYNTHETIC DATA; USER INTERACTION; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS; WEIGHTING SCHEME;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; METADATA;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY SURVEY; INVERSE PROBLEM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 80051867394     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2011.00969.x     Document Type: Article

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