Reflection moveout inversion in azimuthally anisotropic media: Accuracy, limitations and acquisition

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 735-756

  Al Dajani, Abdulfattah ^a,b,c   Alkhalifah, Tariq ^a,b,c   Morgan, Frank Dale ^a,b,c  

^a Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Science and Technology   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DATA ACQUISITION; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ERRORS; ESTIMATION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

MAGNITUDE OF ANISOTROPY; NORMAL MOVEOUT; NUMBER OF OBSERVATIONS; SEISMIC DATA ACQUISITION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DATA PROCESSING; STACKING;

EID: 0033404579     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2478.1999.00140.x     Document Type: Article

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