Migration-based traveltime waveform inversion of 2-D simple structures: A synthetic example

Geophysics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 845-860

  Clément, François ^a   Chavent, Guy ^a,b   Gómez, Susana ^c  

^a INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^c Ciudad Universitaria   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVES; VELOCITY; ACOUSTICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

MIGRATION-BASED TRAVELTIME (MBTT); CLASSICAL LEAST SQUARES; DOMAIN OF ATTRACTION; LOCAL OPTIMIZATION METHODS; MULTISCALE REPRESENTATIONS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PRE-STACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DATA PROCESSING; INVERSE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC DATA; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 0035328765     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444974     Document Type: Article

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