Optimal spherical spline filters for the analysis and comparison of regional-scale tomographic models

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 190-191, Issue , 2012, Pages 44-50

  Fichtner, Andreas ^a   Fishwick, Stewart ^b   Yoshizawa, Kazunori ^c   Kennett, Brian L N ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abel Poisson kernels; Model comparison; Seismic tomography; Spatial filtering; Spherical splines

Indexed keywords

ABEL-POISSON KERNELS; CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE; CONVOLUTION INTEGRALS; DETAILED MODELS; INDEPENDENT MODEL; IRREGULAR GRIDS; MODEL COMPARISON; MULTISCALES; NON-LINEAR INVERSE PROBLEM; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SMALL-SCALE HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL FILTERINGS; SPATIAL FILTERS; SPLINE FILTERS; SPLINE REPRESENTATION; TOMOGRAPHIC; TOMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; VISUAL ANALYSIS; WEIGHTING COEFFICIENT;

INVERSE PROBLEMS; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPHERES;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

HETEROGENEITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856152269     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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