Transdimensional tomography with unknown data noise

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1536-1556

  Bodin, Thomas ^a   Sambridge, Malcolm ^a   Rawlinson, Nick ^a   Arroucau, Pierre ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse theory; Probability distributions; Surface waves and free oscillations; Seismic tomography; Computational seismology; Australia

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; BASIS FUNCTIONS; COMMON PROBLEMS; DATA DENSITY; DATA ERRORS; DATA FITS; DATA NOISE; DATA SETS; DATA TYPE; DATA UNCERTAINTY; DEGREE-OF-KNOWLEDGE; DIFFERENT SCALE; FREE OSCILLATION; HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN; LENGTH SCALE; LEVEL OF DETAIL; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE DATA; MULTIPLE DATA TYPES; MULTISCALE PROBLEM; MULTISCALES; NOISE VARIANCE; OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK; PARAMETRIZATIONS; RAYLEIGH; REGULARIZATION PROCEDURE; SEISMIC MEASUREMENTS; SEISMIC STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SOLUTION MODEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; VELOCITY FIELD; VELOCITY MAPS; WAVE GROUP;

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEISMOGRAPHS; SURFACE WAVES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

SEISMOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEM; OPTIMIZATION; OSCILLATION; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE WAVE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84860840120     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05414.x     Document Type: Article

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