Prestack Kirchhoff depth migration of shallow seismic data

Geophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1241-1247

  Pasasa, Linus ^a   Wenzel, Friedemann ^a   Zhao, Ping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b Australian Geophysical Survey Marine Petroleum   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WASTE DISPOSAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DATA EXAMPLES; PRE-STACK DEPTH MIGRATIONS; PRE-STACK MIGRATION; PRESTACK KIRCHHOFF DEPTH MIGRATION; SHALLOW SEISMIC; THURINGIA , GERMANY; VELOCITY-DEPTH MODEL; WASTE DISPOSAL SITES;

DATA HANDLING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DATA PROCESSING; SEISMIC SURVEY;

EID: 0032124688     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: 19422156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444425     Document Type: Article

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