Multidimensional recursive filter preconditioning in geophysical estimation problems

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Jim Berryman, Bill Harlan, Dave Nichols, Gennady Ryzhikov, and Bill Symes for insightful discussions about preconditioning and optimization problems.

The financial support for this work was provided by the sponsors of the Stanford Exploration Project (SEP). The 3-D North Sea dataset was released to SEP by Conoco and its partners, BP and Mobil. The SeaBeam dataset is courtesy of Alistair Harding of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.