Advances in Geocomputing

Advances in Geocomputing
Author: Huilin Xing
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2009-03-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540858776

Geocomputing can simulate geodynamics, crustal dynamics, earthquakes, tsunami and rock physics.

Advances in Geosciences

Advances in Geosciences
Author: Kenji Satake
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2010
Genre: Science
ISBN: 981283818X

This invaluable volume set of Advances in Geosciences continues the excellent tradition of the Asia-Oceania scientific community in providing the most up-to-date research results on a wide range of geosciences and environmental science. The information is vital to the understanding of the effects of climate change, extreme weathers on the most populated regions and fastest moving economies in the world. Besides, these volumes also highlight original papers from many prestigious research institutions which are doing cutting edge study in atmospheric physics, hydrological science and water resource, ocean science and coastal study, planetary exploration and solar system science, seismology, tsunamis, upper atmospheric physics and space science.

Geocomputation with R

Geocomputation with R
Author: Robin Lovelace
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2019-03-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1351396900

Geocomputation with R is for people who want to analyze, visualize and model geographic data with open source software. It is based on R, a statistical programming language that has powerful data processing, visualization, and geospatial capabilities. The book equips you with the knowledge and skills to tackle a wide range of issues manifested in geographic data, including those with scientific, societal, and environmental implications. This book will interest people from many backgrounds, especially Geographic Information Systems (GIS) users interested in applying their domain-specific knowledge in a powerful open source language for data science, and R users interested in extending their skills to handle spatial data. The book is divided into three parts: (I) Foundations, aimed at getting you up-to-speed with geographic data in R, (II) extensions, which covers advanced techniques, and (III) applications to real-world problems. The chapters cover progressively more advanced topics, with early chapters providing strong foundations on which the later chapters build. Part I describes the nature of spatial datasets in R and methods for manipulating them. It also covers geographic data import/export and transforming coordinate reference systems. Part II represents methods that build on these foundations. It covers advanced map making (including web mapping), "bridges" to GIS, sharing reproducible code, and how to do cross-validation in the presence of spatial autocorrelation. Part III applies the knowledge gained to tackle real-world problems, including representing and modeling transport systems, finding optimal locations for stores or services, and ecological modeling. Exercises at the end of each chapter give you the skills needed to tackle a range of geospatial problems. Solutions for each chapter and supplementary materials providing extended examples are available at https://geocompr.github.io/geocompkg/articles/.

Seismic Imaging, Fault Damage and Heal

Seismic Imaging, Fault Damage and Heal
Author: Yong-Gang Li
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2014-05-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3110369478

Presenting current approaches in observational and computational seismology, this book introduces advanced methods and techniques by means of case studies in earthquake research. Among others these include solving inverse seismologic problems, tomography for structure imaging, characterizing fault damage and healing, seismicity analysis for determining pre-shock moment release, and coupled solid-fluid models.

High Performance Computing for Computational Science – VECPAR 2016

High Performance Computing for Computational Science – VECPAR 2016
Author: Inês Dutra
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2017-07-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319619829

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12fth International Conference on High Performance Computing in Computational Science, VECPAR 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2016. The 20 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applications; performance modeling and analysis; low level support; environments/libraries to support parallelization.

Imaging, Modeling and Assimilation in Seismology

Imaging, Modeling and Assimilation in Seismology
Author: Yong-Gang Li
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-02-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3110259036

This work presents current approaches in geophysical research of earthquakes. A global authorship from top institutions presents case studies to model, measure, and monitor earthquakes. Among others a full-3D waveform tomography method is introduced, as well as propagator methods for modeling and imaging. In particular the earthquake prediction method makes this book a must-read for researchers in the field.

Parallel Computing

Parallel Computing
Author: Barbara Chapman
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 760
Release: 2010
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1607505290

From Multicores and GPUs to Petascale. Parallel computing technologies have brought dramatic changes to mainstream computing the majority of todays PCs, laptops and even notebooks incorporate multiprocessor chips with up to four processors. Standard components are increasingly combined with GPUs Graphics Processing Unit, originally designed for high-speed graphics processing, and FPGAs Free Programmable Gate Array to build parallel computers with a wide spectrum of high-speed processing functions. The scale of this powerful hardware is limited only by factors such as energy consumption and thermal control. However, in addition to"

Fault-Zone Guided Wave, Ground Motion, Landslide and Earthquake Forecast

Fault-Zone Guided Wave, Ground Motion, Landslide and Earthquake Forecast
Author: Yong-Gang Li
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2018-03-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3110542684

The book covers multi-disciplinary topics in observational, computational and applied geophysics in aspects of solid earth system. The authors provide an up-to-date overview for methods and techniques in seismology, with a focus on fault structure, strong ground motion and earthquake forecast based on full-3D earth structure models. Abundant of case studies make it a practical reference for researchers in seismology and applied geophysics.

Full-3D Seismic Waveform Inversion

Full-3D Seismic Waveform Inversion
Author: Po Chen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2015-09-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319166042

This book introduces a methodology for solving the seismic inverse problem using purely numerical solutions built on 3D wave equations and which is free of the approximations or simplifications that are common in classical seismic inversion methodologies and therefore applicable to arbitrary 3D geological media and seismic source models. Source codes provided allow readers to experiment with the calculations demonstrated and also explore their own applications.