Analysis of reflection traveltimes in 3-D transversely isotropic heterogeneous media

Geophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1884-1895

  Grechka, Vladimir Y ^a,b   McMechan, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ANISOTROPY; CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

REFLECTION TRAVELTIMES; THREE DIMENSIONAL TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

HETEROGENEITY; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY; TRAVELTIME;

EID: 0031277691     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444289     Document Type: Article

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