Traveltime and conversion-point computations and parameter estimation in layered, anisotropic media by τ-p transform

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 210-224

  van der Baan, Mirko ^a   Kendall, J Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAY TRACING; WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TAYLOR SERIES;

SEISMIC WAVE PROPAGATION; COMMON-CONVERSION POINTS; CONVENTIONAL PROCESSING; CONVERTED WAVE; FORWARD MODELING; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; TAYLOR SERIES EXPANSIONS; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY; VERTICAL SYMMETRY AXIS;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DATA PROCESSING; FORWARD MODELING; INVERSE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 0037221265     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1543208     Document Type: Article

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