Transmission-reflection tomography: Application to reverse VSP data

Geophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 884-894

  Mao, Weijian ^a   Stuart, Graham W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; TECTONICS;

LINEARIZED INVERSION; MULTIPHASE TOMOGRAPHY; RAY TRACING; TRANSMISSION REFLECTION TOMOGRAPHY; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILES;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILING;

EID: 0031138167     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444196     Document Type: Article

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