A comparison of phase inversion and traveltime tomography for processing near-surface refraction traveltimes

Geophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Ellefsen, Karl J ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; REFRACTION; SHEAR WAVES; STATISTICS; SURVEYS;

COMPLEX FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; PHASE INVERSION; REFRACTION SURVEYS; SMALL-SCALE FEATURES; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUBSURFACE VELOCITY; TRAVEL TIME TOMOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 84861185945     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3196857     Document Type: Article

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