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Inversion of Geophysical Data

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In this chapter, a few topics of inversion generally used for interpreting geoelectrical data are discussed briefly. The topics included are: (i) the general introduction on the subject; (ii) Tikhnov’s regularization; (iii) very brief touch on singular value decomposition, least squares inversion, weighted least squares and weighted ridge regression; (iv) Backus–Gilbert inversion; (v) 2D Occam inversion; (vi) REBOCC inversion; (vii) rapid relaxation inversion; (viii) method of steepest descent; (ix) conjugate gradient minimisation; (x) joint inversion; and (xi) appraisal. Topics included in joint inversion are combinations of: (i) magnetotelluric and DC resistivity; (ii) DC resistivity and induced polarization; and (iii) magnetotellurics and seismics. One field example of use of multiple inversion tools for 1D inversion of the same set of data is given.

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Roy, K.K. (2020). Inversion of Geophysical Data. In: Natural Electromagnetic Fields in Pure and Applied Geophysics. Springer Geophysics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38097-7_10

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