Velocity continuation and the anatomy of residual prestack time migration

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1650-1661

  Fomel, Sergey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ALGORITHMS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTATION THEORY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SEISMIC REFLECTION; CONTINUOUS PROCESS; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; GEOPHYSICS COMPUTING; MIGRATION VELOCITY; MIGRATION VELOCITY ANALYSIS; PRESTACK TIME MIGRATION; SPECTRAL ALGORITHM; VELOCITY CONTINUATION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DATA PROCESSING; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 0242721976     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1620639     Document Type: Article

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