Inverse scattering series and seismic exploration

Inverse Problems

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Weglein, Arthur B ^a   Araújo, Fernanda V ^b,h   Carvalho, Paulo M ^c   Stolt, Robert H ^d   Matson, Kenneth H ^e   Coates, Richard T ^f   Corrigan, Dennis ^g,i   Foster, Douglas J ^d   Shaw, Simon A ^a,e   Zhang, Haiyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^c PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^d Phillips Research Center 224GB   (United States)

^e BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^f SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

^g BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^h EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

ⁱ NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SCATTERING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES;

INVERSE SCATTERING SERIES; SEISMIC EXPLORATION;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 0348207571     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/19/6/R01     Document Type: Review

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