Estimation of near-surface quality factors by constrained inversion of Rayleigh-wave attenuation coefficients

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 82, Issue , 2012, Pages 137-144

  Xia, Jianghai ^b   Xu, Yixian ^b   Miller, Richard D ^a   Ivanov, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Attenuation coefficient; Constrained inversion; Quality factor; Rayleigh wave

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE INFORMATION; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; COMPRESSIONAL; CONSTRAINED INVERSION; EARTH MODELS; EMPIRICAL DATA; GROUND SURFACES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INVERSION ALGORITHM; INVERSION PROBLEMS; L-CURVE METHODS; NEAR-SURFACE; NEAR-SURFACE MATERIALS; NONLINEAR NATURE; PHASE INFORMATION; PRIORI INFORMATION; QUALITY FACTOR Q; QUALITY FACTORS; RAYLEIGH-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC DATAS; SMALL VARIATIONS; SMOOTH MODELS; SPECIFIC VELOCITIES; TRADEOFF SOLUTION; WAVE VELOCITY;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHOD; INVERSE ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEM; P-WAVE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 84861529210     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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