Scattering-angle migration of ocean-bottom seismic data in weakly anisotropic media

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 641-655

  Sollid, Anders ^a   Ursin, Bjørn ^b  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SAND; SCATTERING; ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; LITHOLOGY; REFLECTION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES;

AMPLITUDE VERSUS ANGLE (AVA) RESPONSE; OCEAN-BOTTOM SEISMIC (OBS) DATA; SEISMIC DATA; AMPLITUDE VERSUS ANGLE RESPONSE; ANISOTROPIC ELASTIC; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; KIRCHHOFF MIGRATION; OCEAN-BOTTOM SEISMIC DATUM; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; SCATTERING INTEGRAL; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC;

SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE SCATTERING;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; DATA PROCESSING; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SCATTERING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

EID: 1142306695     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1567234     Document Type: Article

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