GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING, cilt.56, sa.1, ss.141-157, 2008 (SCI-Expanded)
I investigated the two-dimensional magnetotelluric data inversion algorithms in studying two significant aspects within a linearized inversion approach. The first one is the method of minimization and second one is the type of stabilizing functional used in parametric functionals. The results of two well-known inversion algorithms, namely conjugate gradient and the least-squares solution with singular value decomposition, were compared in terms of accuracy and CPU time. In addition, magnetotelluric data inversion with various stabilizers, such as L2-norm, smoothing, minimum support, minimum gradient support and first-order minimum entropy, were examined.