Eigenvector analysis of gravity gradient tensor to locate geologic bodies

Geophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Beiki, Majid ^a   Pedersen, Laust B ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; TENSORS;

ADDITIVE RANDOM NOISE; EIGENVECTOR ANALYSIS; GEOLOGIC INFORMATION; GRAVITY GRADIENT TENSORS; MEASUREMENT CHANNELS; MEASUREMENT POSITIONS; ROBUST LEAST SQUARES; VERTICAL DERIVATIVES;

GRAVITATION;

DATA SET; EIGENVALUE; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; GRAVITY SURVEY; SYMMETRY;

FREE STATE; SOUTH AFRICA; VREDEFORT DOME;

EID: 84857240233     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3484098     Document Type: Article

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