Point-source τ-p transform: A review and comparison of computational methods

Geophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 325-334

  Wang, Yanghua ^a   Houseman, Gregory A ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEISMIC WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BESSEL FOURIER TRANSFORM (BFT) METHOD; CYLINDRICAL SLANT STACK;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

BESSEL-FOURIER TRANSFORM; CYLINDRICAL SLANT STACK; DATA PROCESSING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TIME DOMAIN CONVOLUTION;

EID: 0030788976     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444134     Document Type: Review

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