Adaptive traveltime tomography of densely sampled seismic data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 925-938

  Trinks, Immo ^a   Singh, Satish C ^b   Chapman, Chris H ^c   Barton, Penny J ^a   Bosch, Miguel ^d   Cherrett, Adam ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c SCHLUMBERGER CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^e CSTJF   (France)

Author keywords

Controlled source seismology; Inversion; Ray tracing; Reflection Seismology; Refraction seismology; Tomography; Traveltime

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 15944420878     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02531.x     Document Type: Article

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