Predicting the correct spatial location of reflectors without knowing or determining the precise medium and wave velocity: Initial concept, algorithm and analytic and numerical example

Journal of Seismic Exploration

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 367-382

  Weglein, Arthur B ^a   Foster, Douglas J ^a   Matson, Kenneth H ^a   Shaw, Simon A ^a   Carvalho, Paulo M ^a   Corrigan, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth migration; Imaging; Inverse scattering subseries; Purposeful perturbation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; IMAGING METHOD; INVERSE ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION; SEISMIC MIGRATION; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0036206930     PISSN: 09630651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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