Simultaneous inversion of VSP data using the modified Nelder - Mead method

1996 SEG Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 1939-1942

  Tsemahman, A S ^a   Hron, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; TOPOGRAPHY;

DOWNHILL SIMPLEX METHOD; LINEAR INVERSION; LOCAL MINIMUMS; NELDER-MEAD METHODS; NON LINEAR INVERSION; OPTIMIZATION FUNCTION; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC VELOCITIES;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

EID: 0342362237     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1826541     Document Type: Conference Paper

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