In spherical surface wave tomography, one measures the integrals of a function defined on the sphere along great circle arcs. This forms a generalization of the Funk–Radon transform, which assigns to a function its integrals along full great circles. We show a singular value decomposition (SVD) for the surface wave tomography provided we have full data. Since the inversion problem is overdetermined, we consider some special cases in which we only know the integrals along certain arcs. For the case of great circle arcs with fixed opening angle, we also obtain an SVD that implies the injectivity, generalizing a previous result for half circles in Groemer (Monatsh Math 126(2):117–124, 1998). Furthermore, we derive a numerical algorithm based on the SVD and illustrate its merchantability by numerical tests.
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Hielscher, R., Potts, D., & Quellmalz, M. (2018). An SVD in Spherical Surface Wave Tomography. In Trends in Mathematics (Vol. 0, pp. 121–144). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70824-9_7
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