Aperture effects in 2.5D Kirchhoff migration: A geometrical explanation

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1673-1684

  Hertweck, Thomas ^a   Jäger, Christoph ^a   Goertz, Alexander ^b   Schleicher, Jörg ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b Paulsson Geophysical Services Inc (P/GSI)   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ALGORITHMS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

TIME-MIGRATION VELOCITY ANALYSIS; DIFFRACTION AND REFLECTION; GEOMETRICAL INTERPRETATION; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; GEOPHYSICS COMPUTING; INTUITIVE UNDERSTANDING; METHOD OF STATIONARY PHASE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; STATIONARY-PHASE APPROXIMATION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DATA PROCESSING; KIRCHHOFF EQUATION; SEISMIC DATA; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0242663673     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1620641     Document Type: Article

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