The Backus-Gilbert method and their minimum-norm solution

Geophysics

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2013, Pages W9-W30

  Pujol, Jose M ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT;

AVERAGE VALUES; BACKUS-GILBERT; INVERSE THEORY; INVERSION METHODS; LOCAL AVERAGE; MINIMUM NORM SOLUTIONS; RADIALLY SYMMETRIC; TRADE OFF;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

DATA INVERSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL METHOD; RESOLUTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84883550607     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: 19422156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/GEO2012-0264.1     Document Type: Article

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