A brief history of seismic migration

Geophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Bednar, J Bee ^a  

^a Panorama Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GEOPHYSICS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECORDING INSTRUMENTS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

CHRONOLOGY; SEISMIC IMAGING; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SUBSURFACE IMAGES;

SEISMOLOGY;

CHRONOLOGY; IMAGING METHOD; SEISMIC MIGRATION;

EID: 20844440014     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1926579     Document Type: Article

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