2D multiscale non-linear velocity inversion

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 163-180

  Jin, Side ^a   Beydoun, Wafik ^b  

^a CGG   (United States)

^b Elf Exploration Angola   (Angola)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEISMIC WAVES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY;

GLOBAL RANDOM SEARCH; INTERPRETATION DERIVED VELOCITY ESTIMATION TECHNIQUE; NONLINEAR INVERSION METHOD; SEISMIC DATA IMAGING;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DATA PROCESSING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 0034045943     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2478.2000.00177.x     Document Type: Article

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