Hydrophone VSP imaging at a shallow site

Geophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 842-852

  Milligan, Paul A ^a   Rector III, James W ^b   Bainer, Robert W ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC LOGGING; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ATTENUATION; BOREHOLES; DATA ACQUISITION; HYDROPHONES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SEISMIC WAVES;

BAFFLING; CLOSED CELL FOAM BAFFLES; TUBE WAVES; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILING (VSP);

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

HYDROPHONE; SEISMIC METHOD; SHALLOW SITE; SHALLOW STRUCTURE; UNCONSOLIDATED SEDIMENT; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILING;

EID: 0031142027     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444193     Document Type: Article

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