3-D prestack Kirchhoff depth migration: From prototype to production in a massively parallel processor environment

Geophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 546-556

  Chang, Herman ^a   VanDyke, John P ^b   Solano, Marcelo ^a   McMechan, George A ^c   Epili, Duryodhan ^c,d  

^a Oryx Energy Company   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; UNIX;

THREE DIMENSIONAL PRESTACK KIRCHHOFF DEPTH MIGRATION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DEPTH MIGRATION; SEISMIC DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 0032030022     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444355     Document Type: Article

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