Postgraduate Course: Time Signal Analysis and Inverse Theory (PGGE11146)
This course will be closed from 13 January 2017
Course Outline
| School | School of Geosciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | The Fourier series. Continuous and discrete Fourier transforms. Sampling theorems. The convulution theorem. Auto-correlation and cross correlation. filtering and deconvolution. Forward modelling, parameter estimation and inversion. Least squares solution; over-and under-determined problems. The co-variance matrix. Linearisation of non-linear problems. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On complete of the course, the students should achieve the following learning outcomes:
A familiarity of the mathematical operations for spectral analysis, filtering, and geophysics inversion problems
A familiarity of the applications of the above to the analysis of seismic and potential field data in applied geophysics.
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Reading List
| Time series analysis and inverse theory for Geophysicists by David Gubbins |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Hugh Pumphrey
Tel: (0131 6)50 6026
Email: h.c.pumphrey@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Christine Wilson
Tel: (0131 6)50 4866
Email: Christine.Wilson@ed.ac.uk |
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