Traveltime calculation and prestack depth migration in tilted transversely isotropic media

Geophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 37-44

  Kumar, Dhananjay ^a   Sen, Mrinal K ^a   Ferguson, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERPOLATION; SEISMOLOGY; FOURIER SERIES; GEOLOGIC MODELS;

FOURIER SERIES EXPANSION; MIGRATION ALGORITHMS; BRUTE-FORCE APPROACH; COMPUTATION ALGORITHM; EXTRAPOLATION METHODS; FOURIER-SERIES EXPANSION; PRE-STACK DEPTH MIGRATIONS; TILTED TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC; VERTICAL TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; P-WAVE; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SURVEY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 1842486130     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1649373     Document Type: Article

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