Portable dense geophone array for shallow and very shallow 3D seismic reflection surveying - Part 1: Data acquisition, quality control, and processing

Geophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1443-1455

  Bachrach, Ran ^a,b   Mukerji, Tapan ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; QUALITY CONTROL; REFLECTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS; GROUNDWATER; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

DATA QUALITY; IMAGE REFLECTORS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) SEISMIC REFLECTION IMAGING; WATER TABLE; EVENT IDENTIFICATION; PORTABLE DENSE GEOPHONE ARRAYS; PROCESSING PARAMETERS; RECEIVER LOCATION; SHALLOW TARGETS; TARGET ILLUMINATION; WAVENUMBER FILTERING;

SEISMOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL;

GEOPHONE; GEOPHYSICAL ARRAY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY;

EID: 12144279034     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1836818     Document Type: Article

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