Least-squares migration of incomplete reflection data

Geophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 208-221

  Nemeth, Tamas ^a,b   Wu, Chengjun ^a,c   Schuster, Gerard T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; DATA REDUCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; REFLECTION; SEISMOLOGY;

ASYMPTOTIC ACOUSTIC INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; KIRCHHOFF MIGRATION OPERATORS; LEAST-SQUARES MIGRATION ALGORITHMS; CONJUGATE GRADIENT SCHEMES; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; KIRCHHOFF MIGRATION; MIGRATION ALGORITHMS; MODEL FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILING;

SEISMOLOGY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

DATA PROCESSING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

EID: 0033010487     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444517     Document Type: Article

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