Fast model-based migration velocity analysis and reflector shape estimation

Geophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Fei, Weihong ^a   McMechan, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; RAY TRACING; SEISMOLOGY;

COMMON-REFLECTION POINTS (CRP); FAST-MODEL BASED MIGRATION VELOCITY; KIRCHHOFF DEPTH MIGRATION; PARSIMONIOUS MIGRATION;

VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

SEISMIC METHOD;

EID: 17944381214     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1884830     Document Type: Article

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