Inferring the statistical distribution of velocity heterogeneities by statistical traveltime tomography

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1714-1730

  Iooss, Bertrand ^a   Geraets, David ^b   Mukerji, Tapan ^c   Samuelides, Yann ^d   Touati, Mustafa ^e   Galli, Alain ^b  

^a IRFM   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Credit Agricole SA   (France)

^e SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ALGORITHMS; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROCKS; STATISTICAL METHODS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; RAY TRACING; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBSURFACE HETEROGENEITY; TRAVEL TIME TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY PERTURBATION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STATISTICS;

SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 0242579619     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1620645     Document Type: Article

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