文档介绍：Gravity Interpretation
Wolfgang Jacoby · Peter L. Smilde
Gravity Interpretation
Fundamentals and Application of Gravity
Inversion and Geological Interpretation
With CD-ROM
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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jacoby Dr. Peter L. Smilde
Johannes Finther Str. 6
Gutenberg-Universitat¨ Mainz 55257 Budenheim
Institut fur¨ Geowissenschaften Germany
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Preface
Gravity interpretation involves inversion of data into models, but it is more. Gravity
interpretation is used in a “holistic” sense going beyond “inversion”. Inversion is
like optimization within certain a priori assumptions, ., all anticipated models
lie in a limited domain of the a priori errors. No source should exist outside the
anticipated model volume, but that is never literally true. Interpretation goes beyond
by taking “outside” possibilities into account in the widest sense. Any