| Article ID: | iaor19911040 |
| Country: | Italy |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | 52 |
| Start Page Number: | 63 |
| End Page Number: | 76 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1989 |
| Journal: | Ricerca Operativa |
| Authors: | Ozzola Vito |
| Keywords: | probability |
The object of this study was to estimate the probability for detecting a buried geological structure by means of a seismic line grid and, inversely, to calculate the dimension of a seismic line grid of minimum cost for the detection, with a given probability, of a hypothetical geological structure. The mathematical theory is based upon Buffon’s needle problem and on its extensions studied by Laplace, Uspensky and Diaconis.