Improving a bad static problem in the arapahoe field by 3D nonlinear travel time inversion

1998 SEG Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Pereyra, Victor ^a   Carcione, Laura ^a   Vassiliou, Anthony ^b   Williams, Marty ^c  

^a WEIDLINGER ASSOCIATES INC   (United States)

^b Amoco   (United States)

^c Box 800   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION METHODS; DISTRIBUTED APPROACHES; FORWARD SIMULATION; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; LARGE-SCALE PROBLEM; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; TRAVEL TIME INVERSION;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 0347562495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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