Geophysics Today: A Survey of the Field as the Journal Celebrates its 75th Anniversary
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Engineering and Environmental Geophysics: Surface-wave analysis for building near-surface velocity models — Established approaches and new perspectives
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Published:January 01, 2010
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Laura Valentina Socco, Sebastiano Foti, Daniele Boiero, 2010. "Engineering and Environmental Geophysics: Surface-wave analysis for building near-surface velocity models — Established approaches and new perspectives", Geophysics Today: A Survey of the Field as the Journal Celebrates its 75th Anniversary, Sergey Fomel
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Abstract
Today, surface-wave analysis is widely adopted for building near-surface S-wave velocity models. The surface-wave method is under continuous and rapid evolution, also thanks to the lively scientific debate among different disciplines, and interest in the technique has increased significantly during the last decade. A comprehensive review of the literature in the main scientific journals provides historical perspective, methodological issues, applications, and most-promising recent approaches. Higher modes in the inversion and retrieval of lateral variations are dealt with in great detail, and the current scientific debate on these topics is reported. A best-practices guideline is also outlined.