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In this chapter we present two direct regularization methods, namely the Backus-Gilbert method and the maximum entropy regularization. Although these approaches have been designed for linear problems they can be applied to nonlinear problems as well.
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Doicu, A., Trautmann, T., Schreier, F. (2010). Two direct regularization methods. In: Numerical Regularization for Atmospheric Inverse Problems. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05439-6_9
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