Traveltime computation for 3D anisotropic media by a finite-difference perturbation method

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 431-441

  Soukina, S M ^a   Gajewski, D ^a   Kashtan, B M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

TRAVELTIME COMPUTATION;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PERTURBATION; SEISMIC WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 0141670230     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2478.2003.00385.x     Document Type: Article

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