The relationship between the first Fresnel zone and the normalized geometrical spreading factor

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 351-374

  Sun, Jianguo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESNEL ZONE; FRESNEL-KIRCHHOFF DIFFRACTION THEORY; GEOMETRICAL SPREADING FACTOR; PARAXIAL RAY METHOD; SEISMIC THEORY;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFRACTION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MULTILAYERS; REFLECTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FRESNEL ZONE; FRESNEL-KIRCHOFF DIFFRACTION THEORY; GEOMETRICAL SPREADING FACTOR; INHOMOGENEOUS MULTILAYERED MEDIUM; PARAXIAL RAY METHOD;

SEISMIC WAVES;

EID: 0030148769     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.1996.tb00153.x     Document Type: Article

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