Geophysical Data Analysis: Discrete Inverse Theory

✍ Scribed by William Menke (Auth.)

• Publisher: Academic Press Inc
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Please use extracts from reviews of first edition

Key Features
Updated and thoroughly revised edition
additional material on geophysical/acoustic tomography
* Detailed discussion of application of inverse theory to tectonic, gravitational and geomagnetic studies

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
PREFACE, Pages xi-xii
INTRODUCTION, Pages 1-5
1 - DESCRIBING INVERSE PROBLEMS, Pages 7-19
2 - SOME COMMENTS ON PROBABILITY THEORY, Pages 21-33
3 - SOLUTION OF THE LINEAR, GAUSSIAN INVERSE PROBLEM, VIEWPOINT 1: THE LENGTH METHOD, Pages 35-60
4 - SOLUTION OF THE LINEAR, GAUSSIAN INVERSE PROBLEM, VIEWPOINT 2: GENERALIZED INVERSES, Pages 61-78
5 - SOLUTION OF THE LINEAR, GAUSSIAN INVERSE PROBLEM, VIEWPOINT 3: MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS, Pages 79-99
6 - NONUNIQUENESS AND LOCALIZED AVERAGES, Pages 101-107
7 - APPLICATIONS OF VECTOR SPACES, Pages 109-131
8 - LINEAR INVERSE PROBLEMS AND NON–GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS, Pages 133-142
9 - NONLINEAR INVERSE PROBLEMS, Pages 143-160
10 - FACTOR ANALYSIS, Pages 161-170
11 - SAMPLE INVERSE PROBLEMS, Pages 171-207
12 - NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS, Pages 209-249
APPENDIX A - IMPLEMENTING CONSTRAINTS WITH LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS, Pages 251-252
APPENDIX B - L₂ INVERSE THEORY WITH COMPLEX QUANTITIES, Pages 253-254
REFERENCES, Pages 255-256
INDEX, Pages 257-260