Uncertainties have a meaning: Information entropy as a quality measure for 3-D geological models

Tectonophysics

Volumn 526-529, Issue , 2012, Pages 207-216

  Wellmann, J Florian ^a   Regenauer Lieb, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

3 D geological modeling; Fuzziness; Information entropy; Simulation; Uncertainty; Visualization

Indexed keywords

FUZZINESS; GEOLOGICAL MODELING; INFORMATION ENTROPY; SIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); DATA PROCESSING; FLOW VISUALIZATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84857916758     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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