Towards improving ambient noise tomography using simultaneously curvelet denoising filters and SEM simulations of seismic ambient noise

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 343, Issue 8-9, 2011, Pages 591-599

  Stehly, Laurent ^a,b   Cupillard, Paul ^b   Romanowicz, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Curvelet; Noise correlations; Spectral element method; Surface waves; Tomography

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; DATABASE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 80054115545     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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