True-amplitude seismic migration: A comparison of three approaches

Geophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 929-936

  Gray, Samuel H ^a  

^a BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; DATA REDUCTION; ELASTICITY; LITHOLOGY;

ANGLE DEPENDENT REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; ELASTIC PARAMETER CONTRASTS; TRUE AMPLITUDE SEISMIC MIGRATION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

AVO; SEISMIC MIGRATION; TRUE AMPLITUDE MIGRATION;

EID: 0031133813     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444200     Document Type: Review

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