Can we quantitatively image complex structures with rays?

Geophysics

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1223-1238

  Operto, M S ^a   Xu, S ^a   Lambare, G ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAY TRACING; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVEFRONTS;

ASYMPTOTIC RAY BORN MIGRATION; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; DYNAMIC RAY TRACING; PRESTACK DEPTH MIGRATION; WAVEFRONT CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

DATA PROCESSING; PRESTACK MIGRATION; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 0034233059     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444814     Document Type: Article

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