Unstructured grid based 2-D inversion of VLF data for models including topography

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 363-372

  Baranwal, Vikas C ^a,b   Franke, Antje ^a   Börner, Ralph Uwe ^a   Spitzer, Klaus ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Inversion; MT; Topography; Unstructured grids; VLF

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT; INVERSION; MT; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; VLF;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

DATA INVERSION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORWARD MODELING; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; TOPOGRAPHY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 80052551906     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2011.07.011     Document Type: Article

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