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This unique textbook provides the foundation for understanding and applying techniques commonly used in geophysics to process and interpret modern digital data. The geophysicist's toolkit contains a range of techniques which may be divided into two main groups: processing, which concerns time series analysis and is used to separate the signal of interest from background noise; and inversion, which involves generating some map or physical model from the data. These two groups of techniques are normally taught separately, but are here presented together as parts I and II of the book. Part III describes some real applications and includes case studies in seismology, geomagnetism, and gravity. This textbook gives students and practitioners the theoretical background and practical experience, through case studies, computer examples and exercises, to understand and apply new processing methods to modern geophysical datasets. Solutions to the exercises are available on a website at http://publishing.cambridge.org/resources/0521819652

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'… this excellent textbook fills a much neglected gap … the group that will benefit most from its guidance will be future generations of geophysics students …' Journal of Geological Magazine 'For the student, this is an excellent text well suited for its intended level of instruction with many exercises following each chapter, some requiring computer programs obtainable from various web sites. … I suggest that any instructor planning to teach time series and inverse theory examine this book as a potential text . … In summary, this book has more than adequately filled the role for which it was written, namely as a text for introductory courses in time series analysis and inverse theory.' The Leading Edge ''Any body with an interest in geophysical time series and inverse problems is truly well served with this beautifully written volume.' The Leading Edge

'... this excellent textbook fills a much neglected gap ... the group that will benefit most from its guidance will be future generations of geophysics students ...' Journal of Geological Magazine 'For the student, this is an excellent text well suited for its intended level of instruction with many exercises following each chapter, some requiring computer programs obtainable from various web sites. ... I suggest that any instructor planning to teach time series and inverse theory examine this book as a potential text . ... In summary, this book has more than adequately filled the role for which it was written, namely as a text for introductory courses in time series analysis and inverse theory.' The Leading Edge Any body with an interest in geophysical time series and inverse problems is truly well served with this beautifully written volume.' The Leading Edge

'... this excellent textbook fills a much neglected gap ... the group that will benefit most from its guidance will be future generations of geophysics students ...' Journal of Geological Magazine 'For the student, this is an excellent text well suited for its intended level of instruction with many exercises following each chapter, some requiring computer programs obtainable from various web sites. ... I suggest that any instructor planning to teach time series and inverse theory examine this book as a potential text . ... In summary, this book has more than adequately filled the role for which it was written, namely as a text for introductory courses in time series analysis and inverse theory.' The Leading Edge ''Any body with an interest in geophysical time series and inverse problems is truly well served with this beautifully written volume.' The Leading Edge

'... this excellent textbook fills a much neglected gap ... the group that will benefit most from its guidance will be future generations of geophysics students ...' Journal of Geological Magazine 'For the student, this is an excellent text well suited for its intended level of instruction with many exercises following each chapter, some requiring computer programs obtainable from various web sites. ... I suggest that any instructor planning to teach time series and inverse theory examine this book as a potential text . ... In summary, this book has more than adequately filled the role for which it was written, namely as a text for introductory courses in time series analysis and inverse theory.' The Leading Edge ''Any body with an interest in geophysical time series and inverse problems is truly well served with this beautifully written volume.' The Leading Edge The book Time Series Analysis and Inverse Theory for Geophysicists by D. Gubbins is according to the author, aimed at providing the students of geophysics with an introduction to these [digital] techniques and an understanding of the underlying philosophy and mathematical theory. My impression is that the author has achieved this goal quite well. I would recommend the book as an introductory textbook at undergraduate- and graduate-level courses intended as a general introduction to the numerical techniques used in the processing of geophysical data. The advanced topics of the inverse theory briefly covered in the book can also be interesting for practitioners who need a guide in selecting the proper mathematical approach when solving real problems. Pageoph, Wojciech D^D,ebski, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences Professor Gubbins is very well qualified by training, aptitude and experience to write a book of this nature. This fine book reveals years of wisdom and experience in teaching extensive and hard topics. The treatment is elegant, clear, logical, warm and surprisingly full for a book that is not large, and contains many interesting snippets of information and relevant illustrations. Clive Randall and Andrzej Kijko, Birkhauser Verlag, Basel

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