Inversion of multicomponent, multiazimuth, walkaway VSP data for the stiffness tensor

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1022-1031

  Dewangan, Pawan ^a   Grechka, Vladimir ^a,b  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIZATION; ROCK MECHANICS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; SURVEYS; VECTORS; WAVES; ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ANISOTROPY; DATA REDUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; STIFFNESS; TENSORS;

DATA SETS; P-WAVES; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILING (VSP); ELASTIC STIFFNESS COEFFICIENTS; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; NON LINEAR INVERSION; STIFFNESS COEFFICIENTS; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC MEDIAS; TRICLINIC ANISOTROPY; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILING; VERTICAL SYMMETRY AXIS;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

ANISOTROPY; DATA INVERSION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; STIFFNESS; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILE;

EID: 1842516857     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1581073     Document Type: Article

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