Controls of traveltime data and problems of the generalized reciprocal method

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1626-1632

  Leung, Tak Ming ^a  

^a Roads and Traffic Authority NSW   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAY TRACING; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATA REDUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; REFRACTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

SEISMIC REFRACTION; 2D SEISMIC; FIRST ARRIVAL; INVERSION PROCESS; OFFSET DISTANCES; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC MODEL; SEISMIC REFRACTION DATA; THEORETICAL ASPECTS;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DATA PROCESSING; SEISMIC DATA; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 0242662272     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1620636     Document Type: Article

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