Quartic moveout coefficient: 3D description and application to tilted TI media

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1600-1610

  Pech, Andres ^a   Tsvankin, Ilya ^a   Grechka, Vladimir ^b  

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

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; HORIZONTAL WELLS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

AZIMUTH SYMMETRY; ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; AZIMUTHAL VARIATIONS; GENERAL EQUATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; QUARTIC COEFFICIENTS; REFLECTION POINTS; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DATA PROCESSING; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 0242578201     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1620634     Document Type: Article

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