Comparison of seismic attenuation models using zero-offset vertical seismic profiling (VSP) data

Geophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Toverud, Tommy ^a   Ursin, Bjørn ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; DATA ACQUISITION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LINEAR FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION MODELS; SEISMIC FREQUENCIES; STANDARD LINEAR SOLID (SLS) MODELS;

SEISMOLOGY;

SEISMIC ATTENUATION;

EID: 17944372996     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1884827     Document Type: Article

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