Time-migration velocity analysis by velocity continuation

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1662-1672

  Fomel, Sergey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ALGORITHMS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SEISMIC IMAGE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC VELOCITY; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; GEOPHYSICS COMPUTING; INCREMENTAL PROCESS; LATERAL MOVEMENT; MIGRATION VELOCITY; MIGRATION VELOCITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ALGORITHM; VELOCITY CONTINUATION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DATA PROCESSING; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 0242637687     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1620640     Document Type: Article

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