results of velocity structure modeling in the earth's crust using a comparison approach of receiver function analysis and joint inversion of receiver functions with surface wave dispersion data are presented in this paper. seismograms of the teleseismic events that have been recorded on a broadband seismic station in the central alborz were used for data processing. velocity models that we...

S U M M A R Y It is well established that the Earth’s uppermost mantle is anisotropic, but there are no clear observations of anisotropy in the deeper parts of the mantle. Surface waves are well suited to observe anisotropy since they carry information about both radial and azimuthal anisotropy. Fundamental mode surface waves, for commonly used periods up to 200 s, are sensitive to structure in...

We determine the three-dimensional shear wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle in China using Green’’s functions obtained from seismic ambient noise cross-correlation. The data we use are from the China National Seismic Network, global and regional networks and PASSCAL stations in the region. We first acquire cross-correlation seismograms between all possible station pairs. We t...

The aim of this paper is to construc an image from Moho discontinuity in South America. This result can be obtained through global modeling of Rayleigh waves phase and group velocity (ROSA (1986) and SANTA ROSA (1996)). The initial 2-D inversion model was defined according to the geographic position of each block, sized 10 x 10 degrees by ROSA (1986), in the continent and in the ocean. As a res...

Surface wave dispersion curve inversion is a challenging problem for linear inversion procedures due to its highly non-linear nature and to the large numbers of local minima and maxima of the objective function (multi-modality). In order to improve the reliability of the inversion results, we implemented and tested a two-step inversion scheme based on Genetic Algorithms (GAs). The proposed sche...

[1] We use neural networks to find 1-dimensional marginal probability density functions (pdfs) of global crustal parameters. The information content of the full posterior and prior pdfs can quantify the extent to which a parameter is constrained by the data. We inverted fundamental mode Love and Rayleigh wave phase and group velocity maps for pdfs of crustal thickness and independently of verti...

We consider the electromagnetic inverse scattering problem for the Drude-Born-Fedorov model for periodic chiral structures known as chiral gratings both in R and R. The Factorization method is studied as an analytical as well as a numerical tool for solving this inverse problem. The method constructs a simple criterion for characterizing shape of the periodic scatterer which leads to a fast ima...