Scale dependence of reflection and transmission coefficients

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 322-336

  Imhof, Matthias G ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LOGGING; CALCULATIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY; WAVE FILTERS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVE TRANSMISSION; WELL LOGGING;

HETEROGENEITIES; DOMINANT WAVELENGTH; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; HARMONIC VELOCITY; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS; THEORETICAL VALUES; WAVELET TRANSFORMATIONS;

SEISMIC WAVES; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION;

HETEROGENEITY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRANSMITTANCE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WELL LOGGING;

EID: 0037217495     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1543218     Document Type: Article

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