Inversion of nuclear well-logging data using neural networks

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 103-120

  Aristodemou, Elsa ^a   Pain, Christopher ^a   de Oliveira, Cassiano ^a   Goddard, Tony ^a   Harris, Christopher ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Shell International Exploration and Production Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; GAMMA RAYS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEUTRONS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; POROSITY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

DETECTOR FLUXES; GLOBAL SEARCH PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR WELL LOGGING DATA; PARTICLE RADIATION;

WELL LOGGING;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; GAMMA RAY RADIATION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; WELL LOGGING;

EID: 12844272223     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2005.00432.x     Document Type: Article

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