Vladimir Pinsky
Development and application
Geophysical Institute of Israel
Address: POB 862
Tel: 972-8-978-58849 Fax: 972-8-9255211
E-mail:
vlad@seis.mni.gov.il

 

 
 

Development and application

 

Academic Status: 

Phd in Mathematics and Geophysics                         
M.sc in Applied  Mathematics  
M.sc in  Electrical communications

Senior Researcher in the Seismological Division of the Geophysical Institute of Israel. 

Experience and Qualification:

      On-going and recent research:      

Automatic extracting hidden or spoiled information from an array of observations 

Using non-linear outlier resistant methods

Applications - source location and discrimination for networks and arrays of seismic stations

    Previous research: 

Adaptive beamforming for array observations with application of multidimensional autoregressive-moving average schemes
Statistical asymptotically optimal methods with Application to the linear dynamic systems parameter estimation

    Key Publications:

Pinsky V., S. Horiuchi , (2007). Hypocenter location of mixed events in real-time processing systems. (submitted).  

Pinsky V. (2006). Using beamforming for the global network location. Phys. Earth and Plan. Interiors 158, 75-83.

Pinsky V., Y. Gitterman, A. Hofstetter, and A. Shapira, (2006). Robust location of surface explosions by a network of acoustic arrays. Geoph. Res. Letters, vol. 33, L02317, doi:10.1029/2005GL024304.

Pinsky V. (2005). Accurate location of seismic sources with and without travel time model in Earthquake monitoring and seismic hazard mitigation in Balkan countries NATO ARW series, edited by E. Husebye and C. Christova, Springer 2006 (extended abstract and proceedings)

Pinsky, V. (2000). Prototype Automatic Earthquake Locator for Regional Networks. Geophys. Res. Letters., 27, NO. 21, pp. 3549-3552, November 1.

Pinsky, V.(1999) An approach to automatic Location of Regional Events. Phys. Earth. & Planet. Inter. 113, pp.293-302.

Pinsky, V., A. Shapira, Y. Gitterman. (1999). Using Group Velocities of Seismic Phases for Regional Event Discrimination. Phys. Earth. & Planet. Inter. 113, pp. 155-159.

Pinsky, V., Y. Gitterman,  A. Shapira (1997) Multivariate Discrimination of Regional and Teleseismic Events, Using the Israel seismic Network Recordings, 19th Annual Seismic Research Syposium on Monitoring Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, 23-25 September, 1997

Tsvang, S.L.,Pinsky, V.I., Husebye,E.S. (1993). Enhanced Seismic Source discrimination  using  NORESS  recordings from Eurasian events. Geophys. J. Int., 112, pp.1-14.

Kushnir A.F., Lapshin V.M.,Pinsky V.I.,Fyen J. (1990). Statistically optimal event detection using small array data, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am.,vol 80, pp.1934-1947, 1990

Kushnir A.F., Pinsky V.I. (1985); Asymptotically efficient estimation of linear systems. I. Simplified asymptotically efficient estimators. Comput. Seism., vol.19, Allerton Press 5.

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