Elastic wave equation traveltime and waveform inversion of crosswell data

Geophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 853-868

  Zhou, Changxi ^a,b   Schuster, Gerard T ^a   Hassanzadeh, Sia ^c   Harris, Jerry M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b PGS Tensor   (United States)

^c SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LOGGING; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; BOREHOLES; DATA REDUCTION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HYDROPHONES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); POROSITY;

ELASTIC WAVE EQUATION TRAVELTIME AND WAVEFORM INVERSION METHOD; VELOCITY TOMOGRAMS;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

CROSS WELL DATA; ELASTIC WAVE EQUATION; TRAVELTIME; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

EID: 0031136170     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444194     Document Type: Article

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