A new direction of shallow refraction seismology: Integrating amplitudes and traveltimes with the refraction convolution section

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 657-673

  Palmer, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REFRACTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

REFRACTION CONVOLUTION SECTIONS (RCS);

SEISMOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE; DATA PROCESSING; SEISMIC REFRACTION; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 0035504262     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2478.2001.00293.x     Document Type: Article

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