Inversion technique for recovering the elastic constants of transversely isotropic materials

Geophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1247-1257

  Okoye, Patrick N ^a   Zhao, Ping ^a   Uren, Norm F ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ELASTIC MODULI; ESTIMATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ANISOTROPIC INVERSE MODELING; FIRST ARRIVAL TRAVELTIMES; INVERSION TECHNIQUE; LEAST SQUARES ITERATIVE INVERSION TECHNIQUE; P WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC EXPLORATION; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC MATERIALS;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

ELASTIC PARAMETER; INVERSION; ISOTROPIC MEDIUM; LEAST SQUARES TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0030235897     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444049     Document Type: Article

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