Depth image focusing in traveltime map-based wide-angle migration

Geophysics

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1903-1912

  Morozov, Igor B ^a   Levander, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; REFLECTION; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

SEISMIC DATA; WIDE ANGLE MIGRATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

DEPTH; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC MIGRATION; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY;

EID: 0036865634     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1527090     Document Type: Article

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