Uncertainty estimation for amplitude variation with offset (AVO) inversion

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1485-1496

  Riedel, Michael ^a   Dosso, Stan E ^b   Beran, Laurens ^c  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MARINE APPLICATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; VISCOELASTICITY; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LINEARIZATION; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

AMPLITUDE VARIATIONS; SEABED COMPOSITION; AMPLITUDE VARIATION WITH OFFSETS; BAYES METHOD; BAYESIAN FORMULATION; EARTH CRUSTS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD APPROACHES; NON-LINEAR ESTIMATION; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; UNCERTAINTY HANDLING;

SEISMOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AVO METHOD; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; SEISMIC DATA; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0242662316     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1620621     Document Type: Article

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