Reformulated kinematic and dynamic ray tracing systems for arbitrarily anisotropic media

Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-20

  Iversen, E ^a  

^a NORSAR   (Norway)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Dynamic ray tracing; Kinematic ray tracing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RAY TRACING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 1842584654     PISSN: 00393169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:SGEG.0000015583.34422.80     Document Type: Article

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