Tau migration and velocity analysis: Theory and synthetic examples

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1331-1339

  Alkhalifah, Tariq ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ CITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTIC WAVES; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

VELOCITY ANALYSIS; COMPLEX NEAR SURFACES; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; MIGRATION VELOCITY ANALYSIS; PRE-STACK DEPTH MIGRATIONS; PRE-STACK MIGRATION; TIME-DOMAIN METHODS; VELOCITY INFORMATION;

GEOPHYSICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EQUATION; IMAGING METHOD; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 0141625733     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1598126     Document Type: Article

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