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Nonlinear, nonlocal and adaptive optimization algorithms, now readily available, as applied to parameter estimation problems, require that the data to be inverted should not be very noisy. If they are so, the algorithm tends to fit them, rather than smoothening the noise component out. Here, use of Bernstein polynomials is proposed to prefilter noise out, before inversion with the help of a sophisticated optimization algorithm. Their properties are described. Inversion of gravity and magnetic data for basement depth estimation, singly and jointly, and without and after Bernstein-preprocessing is conducted to illustrate that the inversion of Bernstein-preprocessed gravity data alone may be slightly superior to the joint inversion of gravity and magnetic data.
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Srinivas, S., Moharir, P.S. & Maru, V.M. Bernstein preprocessing for nonlinear least squares inversion of gravity and magnetic data. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet Sci.) 108, 269–275 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02840504
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