Estimating shallow shear velocities with marine multicomponent seismic data

Geophysics

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1991-2004

  Ritzwoller, Michael H ^a   Levshin, Anatoli L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTICS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OFFSHORE GAS FIELDS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SHEAR VELOCITIES; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; MULTICOMPONENT SEISMIC DATA; OCEANIC CRUST; OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; STRUCTURAL DISCONTINUITY; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES; WEALTH OF INFORMATION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SHEAR FLOW;

DISCONTINUITY; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0036866170     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1527099     Document Type: Article

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