An automatic kurtosis-based P-and S-phase picker designed for local seismic networks

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 394-409

  Baillard, Christian ^a   Crawford, Wayne C ^a   Ballu, Valérie ^b   Hibert, Clément ^a   Mangeney, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTIONS; CLUSTERING PROCEDURE; EIGENVALUE DECOMPOSITION; FREQUENCY BAND WIDTH; POLARIZATION PARAMETERS; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); SMOOTHING PARAMETER;

ALGORITHMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; EIGENVALUE; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECISION; S-WAVE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84893223555     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120347     Document Type: Article

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