Kinematic artifacts in prestack depth migration

Geophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 562-575

  Stolk, Christiaan C ^a   Symes, William W ^b  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATHOLOGY; REFLECTION; SCATTERING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; REFRACTION; SEISMIC WAVES; VELOCITY;

DATA BINS; KINEMATIC ARTIFACTS; PRESTACK DEPTH MIGRATION; BINNING STRATEGY; COMMON SOURCE; GEOPHYSICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MIGRATION VELOCITY; PRE-STACK DEPTH MIGRATIONS; REFRACTION OF WAVES; SCATTERING ANGLES; STACKING;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CORRECTION; DATA PROCESSING; KINEMATICS; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 2342525890     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1707076     Document Type: Article

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