The joint nonhyperbolic moveout inversion of PP and PS data in VTI media

Geophysics

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1929-1932

  Grechka, Vladimir ^a   Tsvankin, Ilya ^b  

^a Shell International Exploration and Production Inc   (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFLECTION; STABILITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; DATA REDUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

NONHYPERBOLIC MOVEOUT; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; P- AND S-WAVES; SINGLE-LAYER MODELS; TIME PROCESSING; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC MEDIAS; VELOCITY ANALYSIS; VERTICAL SYMMETRY AXIS; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

GEOPHYSICS; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION;

P-WAVE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 0036866618     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1527093     Document Type: Article

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