Seismic Tomography with Irregular Meshes

Seismic Earth: Array Analysis of Broadband Seismograms

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 49-65

  Sambridge, Malcolm ^a   Rawlinson, Nick ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Seismic arrays; Seismograms

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMOGRAPHS;

ADVANTAGES AND PITFALLS; HIGHER RESOLUTION; OPTIMAL APPROACHES; SEISMIC APPLICATION; SEISMIC ARRAYS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAMS; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING;

SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 84952765664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/157GM04     Document Type: Chapter

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