1. Describing Inverse Problems2. Some Comments on Probability Theory3. Solution of the Linear, Gaussian Inverse Problem, Viewpoint 1: The Length Method4. Solution of the Linear, Gaussian Inverse Problem, Viewpoint 2: Generalized Inverses5. Solution of the Linear, Gaussian Inverse Problem, Viewpoint 3: Maximum Likelihood Methods 6. Nonuniqueness and Localized Averages7. Applications of Vector Spaces8. Linear Inverse Problems and Non-Gaussian Statistics9. Nonlinear Inverse Problems10. Factor Analysis11. Continuous Inverse Theory and Tomography12. Sample Inverse Problems13. Applications of Inverse Theory to Solid Earth Geophysics
Provides readers with the tools to make useful inferences from complicated data using inverse theory
William Menke is a Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. His research focuses on the development of data analysis algorithms for time series analysis and imaging in the earth and environmental sciences and the application of these methods to volcanoes, earthquakes, and other natural hazards. He has thirty years of experience teaching data analysis methods to both undergraduates and graduate students. Relevant courses that he has taught include, at the undergraduate level, Environmental Data Analysis and The Earth System, and at the graduate level, Geophysical Inverse Theory, Quantitative Methods of Data Analysis, Geophysical Theory and Practical Seismology.
"This is a practical book on data analysis based on numerical
Matlab procedures for solving inverse problems with a special
application in seismology. The book is useful both as a textbook
for graduate students in geophysics and as a numerical data
processing reference book for researchers not only in geophysics
but also those involved in acoustic tomography and X-ray imaging
data processing." --Zentrallblatt MATH 1250
Praise for the second edition:"The author has produced a meaningful
guide to the subject; one which a student (or professional
unfamiliar with the field) can follow without great difficulty and
one in which many motivational guideposts are provided....I think
that the value of the book is outstanding....It deserves a
prominent place on the shelf of every scientist or engineer who has
data to interpret." --GEOPHYSICS
"As a meteorologist, I have used least squares, maximum likelihood,
maximum entropy, and empirical orthogonal functions during the
course of my work, but this book brought together these somewhat
disparate techniques into a coherent, unified package....I
recommend it to meteorologists involved with data analysis and
parameterization." --Roland B. Stull, THE BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN
METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
"This book provides an excellent introductory account of inverse
theory with geophysical applications....My experience in using this
book, along with supplementary material in a course for the first
year graduate students, has been very positive. I unhesitatingly
recommend it to any student or researcher in the geophysical
sciences." --PACEOPH
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