Improved ambient noise correlation functions using Welch's method

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 513-523

  Seats, Kevin J ^a   Lawrence, Jesse F ^a   Prieto, German A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Seismic tomography; Surface waves and free oscillations; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; NOISE CORRELATION FUNCTION; SEISMIC FIELD; SEISMIC RECORDS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHORT DURATIONS; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME WINDOWS; WAVE FORMS;

FUNCTION EVALUATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AMBIENT NOISE; INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855432931     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05263.x     Document Type: Article

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