Borehole electrical resistivity modeling using neural networks

Geophysics

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1790-1797

  Zhang, Lin ^a   Poulton, Mary M ^a   Wang, Tsili ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b BAKER ATLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; NEURAL NETWORKS; GEOPHYSICS; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; MODELS; SAMPLING;

RESISTIVITY MODELING; EARTH RESISTIVITY; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; GEOPHYSICS COMPUTING; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; LEARNING (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE); MODULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURAL NETWORK PARAMETERS; RESISTIVITY VARIATION;

GEOPHYSICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BOREHOLE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY;

EID: 0036866630     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1527079     Document Type: Article

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