Focusing in dip and AVA compensation on scattering-angle/azimuth common image gathers

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 232-254

  Brandsberg Dahl, Sverre ^a   de Hoop, Maarten V ^b   Ursin, Bjorn ^b  

^a BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ELASTIC MODULI; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VELOCITY; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AMPLITUDE VARIATION WITH OFFSET (AVO); COMMON IMAGE GATHERS (CIG); AMPLITUDE VARIATION WITH OFFSETS; FINITE DIFFERENCE MODEL; GENERALIZED RADON TRANSFORM; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; ISOTROPIC ELASTIC MEDIUM; MIGRATION VELOCITY ANALYSIS; OCEAN-BOTTOM SEISMIC DATUM;

GEOPHYSICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ALGORITHM; AZIMUTH; DATA PROCESSING; SEISMIC DATA; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0037219739     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1543210     Document Type: Article

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