Kirchhoff scattering series: Insight into the multiple attenuation method

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 16-28

  Ikelle, Luc T ^a   Amundsen, Lasse ^b   Gangi, Anthony ^a   Wyatt, Steven B ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c Subsurface Technology Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SCATTERING; SEISMIC WAVES; COMPUTATION THEORY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SEISMOLOGY;

KIRCHHOFF SCATTERING; COMBINED MEASUREMENTS; INVERSE SCATTERING; MULTIPLE ATTENUATION; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; REPRESENTATION THEOREM; STREAMER SEISMIC DATA; THEORETICAL SEISMOLOGIES; VERTICAL DERIVATIVES;

GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE SCATTERING;

DATA PROCESSING; KIRCHHOFF EQUATION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0037217811     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1543191     Document Type: Article

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