Ray-based 2D anisotropic pre-stack depth migration on synthetic and real data

Revue de l'Institut Francais du Petrole

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 595-606

  Mispel, J ^a,b   Williamson, P ^a   Berthet, P ^c  

^a Elf Explor UK Geosci Res Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CSTJF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; SHALE; VELOCITY;

PRE-STACK DEPTH MIGRATION (PSDM); SEISMIC ANISOTROPY;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

ANISOTROPY; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGING METHOD; SEISMIC DATA; SHALE;

EID: 0032172388     PISSN: 00202274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2516/ogst:1998054     Document Type: Article

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