AVO polarization and hodograms: AVO strength and polarization product

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 849-862

  Mahob, Patrice Nsoga ^a,b   Castagna, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRINES; HYDROCARBONS; POLARIZATION; ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA REDUCTION; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; MODELS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

HODOGRAMS; POLARIZATION PRODUCTS; AMPLITUDE VARIATION WITH OFFSETS; ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; HYDROCARBON INDICATORS; LINEAR CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; POLARIZATION ANGLE; POLARIZATION METHOD;

GEOPHYSICS; POLARIZATION;

AVO METHOD; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; POLARIZATION; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 10844282567     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1581037     Document Type: Article

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