You're referring to seismology and deciding whether something is a blast or a standard double-couple earthquake. That's fairly straightfoward, as it's mostly a matter of getting enough data from different angles. Lots of data processing and ambiguity, but in the end, you're inverting for a relatively simple mathematical model (the focal mechanism): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_mechanism
I'm referring to reflection seismic, where you're fundamentally interpreting an image after all of the processing to make the image (i.e. basically making a mathematic lens) has already been done.
You're referring to seismology and deciding whether something is a blast or a standard double-couple earthquake. That's fairly straightfoward, as it's mostly a matter of getting enough data from different angles. Lots of data processing and ambiguity, but in the end, you're inverting for a relatively simple mathematical model (the focal mechanism): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_mechanism
I'm referring to reflection seismic, where you're fundamentally interpreting an image after all of the processing to make the image (i.e. basically making a mathematic lens) has already been done.