Inverse gravity modeling

Flat, spherical, spectral approach, Surface harmonics (Valeria Barbosa (Brazil), Riccardo Barzaghi (Italy)

Inverse Methods in flatland.
Selection by Valeria Barbosa (Brazil)

Peter G. Lelièvre, Colin G. Farquharson, Charles A. Hurich. Joint inversion of seismic traveltimes and gravity data on unstructured grids with application to mineral exploration. GEOPHYSICS 77, K1-K15 (2012).

Cericia Martinez, Yaoguo Li, Richard Krahenbuhl, Marco Antonio Braga. 3D inversion of airborne gravity gradiometry data in mineral exploration: A case study in the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Brazil. GEOPHYSICS 78, B1-B11 (2013).

Majid Beiki, Laust B. Pedersen. Eigenvector analysis of gravity gradient tensor to locate geologic bodies. GEOPHYSICS 75, I37-I49 (2010).

A. G. Camacho, J. Fernández, J. Gottsmann. A new gravity inversion method for multiple subhorizontal discontinuity interfaces and shallow basins. Journal of Geophysical Research 116 (2011).

Majid Beiki. Analytic signals of gravity gradient tensor and their application to estimate source location. GEOPHYSICS 75, I59-I74 (2010).

Gary Barnes, John Lumley. Processing gravity gradient data. GEOPHYSICS 76, I33-I47 (2011).

F. Caratori Tontini, L. Cocchi, C. Carmisciano. Potential-field inversion for a layer with uneven thickness: The Tyrrhenian Sea density model. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 166, 105-111 (2008).

Leonardo Uieda, Valéria C. F. Barbosa. Robust 3D gravity gradient inversion by planting anomalous densities. Geophysics 77, G55 (2012).

Antonio G. Camacho, Fuensanta G. Montesinos, Ricardo Vieira. Gravity inversion by means of growing bodies. GEOPHYSICS 65, 95-101 (2000).

Colin G. Farquharson. Constructing piecewise-constant models in multidimensional minimum-structure inversions. GEOPHYSICS 73, K1-K9 (2008).

Luis A. Gallardo, M.A. Pérez-Flores, E. Gómez-Treviño. Refinement of three-dimensional multilayer models of basins and crustal environments by inversion of gravity and magnetic data. Tectonophysics 397, 37-54 (2005).

L. A. Gallardo-Delgado, M. A. PéRez-Flores, E. GóMez-TrevinO. A versatile algorithm for joint 3D inversion of gravity and magnetic data. Geophysics 68, 949 (2003).

Vanderlei C. Oliveira Jr, Valéria C. F. Barbosa, João B. C. Silva. Source geometry estimation using the mass excess criterion to constrain 3-D radial inversion of gravity data. Geophysical Journal International 187, 754-772 (2011).

Cristiano M. Martins, Williams A. Lima, Valeria C. Barbosa, João B. Silva. Total variation regularization for depth-to-basement estimate: Part 1 — Mathematical details and applications. GEOPHYSICS 76, I1-I12 (2011).
Fernando J. S. Silva Dias, Valéria C. F. Barbosa, João B. C. Silva. Adaptive learning 3D gravity inversion for salt-body imaging. GEOPHYSICS 76, I49-I57 (2011). Link

João B. C. Silva, Valéria C. F. Barbosa. Interactive gravity inversion. GEOPHYSICS 71, J1-J9 (2006). Link

H. Bertete-Aguirre, E. Cherkaev, M. Oristaglio. Non-smooth gravity problem with total variation penalization functional. Geophysical Journal International 149, 499 (2002). Link

A. Guillen, V. Menichetti. Gravity and magnetic inversion with minimization of a specific functional. GEOPHYSICS 49, 1354-1360 (1984). Link

B. J. Last, K. Kubik. Compact gravity inversion. GEOPHYSICS 48, 713-721 (1983). Link

Miguel Bosch, Ronny Meza, Rosa Jiménez, Alfredo Hönig. Joint gravity and magnetic inversion in 3D using Monte Carlo methods. GEOPHYSICS 71, G153-G156 (2006). Link

Oleg Portniaguine, Michael S. Zhdanov. Focusing geophysical inversion images. GEOPHYSICS 64, 874-887 (1999). Link

Michael S. Zhdanov, Robert Ellis, Souvik Mukherjee. Three‐dimensional regularized focusing inversion of gravity gradient tensor component data. GEOPHYSICS 69, 925-937 (2004). Link

A. Guillen, Ph. Calcagno, G. Courrioux, A. Joly, P. Ledru. Geological modelling from field data and geological knowledge. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 171, 158-169 (2008).

Emilia Fregoso, Luis A. Gallardo. Cross-gradients joint 3D inversion with applications to gravity and magnetic data. GEOPHYSICS 74, L31-L42 (2009).

Valéria Cristina F. Barbosa, João B. C. Silva, Walter E. Medeiros. Gravity inversion of basement relief using approximate equality constraints on depths. GEOPHYSICS 62, 1745-1757 (1997).

Maurizio Fedi, Antonio Rapolla. 3-D inversion of gravity and magnetic data with depth resolution. GEOPHYSICS 64, 452-460 (1999).

Vanderlei C. Oliveira, Valéria C. F. Barbosa, Leonardo Uieda. Polynomial equivalent layer. GEOPHYSICS 78, G1-G13 (2013).

Braitenberg C., Zadro M. Iterative 3D gravity inversion with integration of seismologic data. Boll. Geof. Teor. Appl., Vol. 40, N. 3/4, 469-476 (1999)

Braitenberg C., Zadro M., Fang J., Wang Y., Hsu H.T. Gravity inversion in Quinghai-Tibet plateau. Physics of the Chemistry of the Earth, 25/4, 381-386, (2000).

 

Inverse Methods in flatland.
Selection by Riccardo Barzaghi (Italy)

Arabelos D., Tsoulis D. (2013). The exploitation of state of the art digital terrain databases and combined or satellite-only earth gravity models for the estimation of the crust-mantle interface over oceanic regions. Geophys. J. Int., 3, 1343-1352.

Bagherbandi M., Tenzer R., Sjöberg L. E., Novak P. (2013). Improved global crustal thickness modeling based on the VMM isostatic model and non-isostatic gravity correction. Journal of Geodynamics, 66, 25-37.
Ensagh M., Bagherbandi M., Sjöberg L. E. (2011). A combined global Moho model based on seismic and gravimetric data. Acta Geod. Geoph. Hung., 46(1), 25-38.

Lebedev S., Adam J.M.-C., Meier T. (2013). Mapping the Moho with seismic surface waves: A review, resolution analysis, and recommended inversion strategies. DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.12.030

Mariani P., Braitenberg C., Ussami N. (2013). Explaining the thick crust in Paraná basin, Brazil, with satellite GOCE gravity observations. Journal of South American Earth Science, 45, 209-223.

Meier U., Curtis A., Trampert J. (2007). Global crustal thickness from neural network inversion of surface wave data. Geophys. J. Int., 169, 706-722.

Grad M., Tira T. and the ESC Working Group (2009). The Moho depth map of the European Plate. Geophys. J. Int., 176, 279-292.

M. Reguzzoni, D. Sampietro, F. Sansò (2013), Global Moho from the combination of the CRUST2.0 model and GOCE data. Geophys J Int, (in print), DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt247

Sampietro, D., Sansó, F. (2012). Uniqueness theorems for inverse gravimetric problems. In VII Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy (pp. 111-115). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Sjöberg L. E. (2013).On the isostatic gravity anomaly and disturbance and their applications to Vening Meinesz–Moritz gravimetric inverse problem. Geophys. J. Int. 193(3), 1277-1282, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt008