Velocity model estimation with data-derived wavefront attributes

Geophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 265-274

  Duveneck, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFLECTION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RAY TRACING; SPLINES; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFRONTS; ITERATIVE METHODS; KINEMATICS; VELOCITY;

KINEMATIC INFORMATION; VELOCITY MODEL; COMMON REFLECTION SURFACES; DYNAMIC RAY TRACING; INVERSION PROCEDURE; PERTURBATION THEORY; SUBSURFACE VELOCITY; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; WAVE-FRONT CURVATURE;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; WAVEFRONTS;

DATA INVERSION; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 1542353264     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1649394     Document Type: Article

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