Information theory-based measures of similarity for imaging shallow-mantle discontinuities

Lithosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 289-303

  Bapanayya, C ^a   Raju, P A ^a   Das Sharma, S ^a   Ramesh, D S ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REVERBERATION; SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY;

INFORMATION DISTANCE; LEHMANN DISCONTINUITY; LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY; MANTLE DISCONTINUITIES; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; VARIATION OF INFORMATIONS; VELOCITY CONTRASTS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

ARCHEAN; ASTHENOSPHERE; CRATON; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PHANEROZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; THEORETICAL STUDY; VELOCITY; WAVE;

CANADA; INDIA;

EID: 80052319593     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L152.1     Document Type: Article

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