Traveltime inversion for the geometry of aquifer lithologies

GEOPHYSICS

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2021, Pages 1728-1737

  Hyndman, David W ^a,b   Harris, Jerry M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ALGORITHMS; AQUIFERS; LITHOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MULTIPLE POPULATION INVERSION; SEISMIC SLOWNESS; SPLIT INVERSION METHOD; TRAVELTIME INVERSION METHOD;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

AQUIFER; DATA PROCESSING; INVERSION; LITHOLOGY; MULTIPLE POPULATION INVERSION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRAVELTIME TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030292021     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444090     Document Type: Article

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