Traveltime computation by wavefront-orientated ray tracing

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-36

  Coman, Radu ^a,b   Gajewski, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b TEEC ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EXTRAPOLATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAY TRACING; TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM; VECTORS;

TRAVELTIMES; TWO-DIMENSIOAL (2D) VELOCITY MODELS; WAVEFRONT-ORIENTED RAY-TRACING (WRT) TECHNIQUES;

WAVEFRONTS;

DATA PROCESSING; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 12844255818     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2005.00429.x     Document Type: Article

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