Surface wave eikonal tomography in heterogeneous media using exploration data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 781-788

  Gouédard, Pierre ^a   Yao, Huajian ^a,b   Ernst, Fabian ^c   van der Hilst, Robert D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Emerging Technologies Subsurface   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Controlled source seismology; Interferometry; Seismic tomography; Surface waves and free oscillations; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; ARRIVAL TIME; CONTROLLED SOURCE; DISPERSIVE WAVES; EIKONAL; EXPLORATION DATA; FREE OSCILLATION; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; INPUT PARAMETER; MEASUREMENT METHODS; MULTIPLE SOURCE; PRIORI INFORMATION; RAYLEIGH WAVE VELOCITY; REFERENCE MODELS; SCATTERING ENVIRONMENT; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SOURCE-RECEIVER PATH; STUDY AREAS; SURFACE-WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY MAPS; WAVE FORMS;

INTERFEROMETRY; PILE FOUNDATIONS; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

SURFACE WAVES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARRIVAL TIME; DATA INVERSION; DATA SET; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; INTERFEROMETRY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE DISPERSION;

EID: 84867402284     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05652.x     Document Type: Article

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