Estimating scattering attenuation from vugs or karsts

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1182-1188

  Hackert, Chris L ^a   Parra, Jorge O ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SCATTERING; WAVE PROPAGATION; ELASTIC WAVES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROCKS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; ULTRASONIC ABSORPTION; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

ULTRASONIC FREQUENCIES; 3D FINITE DIFFERENCES; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; SCATTERING ATTENUATION; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; ULTRASONIC FREQUENCY; VOIDS (SOLID); X RAY COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

GEOPHYSICS; LANDFORMS;

CAVITY; ELASTIC WAVE; KARST; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0141849155     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1598111     Document Type: Article

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