Imaging complex geologic structure with single-arrival Kirchhoff prestack depth migration

Geophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1533-1543

  Audebert, François ^a   Nichols, Dave ^b,c   Rekdal, Thorbjørn ^d   Biondi, Biondo ^b   Lumley, David E ^b,e   Urdaneta, Hector ^b  

^a CGG   (France)

^b 360 Mitchell Bldg   (United States)

^c SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^d Box 354   (Norway)

^e CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOLOGY; GREEN'S FUNCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TECTONICS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE MIGRATION IMAGE; SINGLE ARRIVAL KIRCHHOFF PRESTACK DEPTH MIGRATION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

GEOLOGIC STRUCTURE; KIRCHHOFF PRESTACK DEPTH MIGRATION;

EID: 0031224959     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444256     Document Type: Article

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