Implementation of 3-D prestack Kirchhoff migration, with application to data from the Ouachita frontal thrust zone

GEOPHYSICS

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2021, Pages 1400-1411

  Epili, Duryodhan ^a,b   McMechan, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIMESTONE; LITHOLOGY; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DATA DECOMPOSITION; OUACHITA FRONTAL THRUST ZONE; PRESTACK KIRCHHOFF MIGRATION ALGORITHM; RAY TRACING; WAPANUCKA LIMESTONE;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DEPTH MIGRATION; KIRCHHOFF MIGRATION; PRESTACK MIGRATION;

EID: 0030236005     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444064     Document Type: Article

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