Minimum travel time tree algorithm for seismic ray tracing: Improvement in efficiency

Journal of Geophysics and Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 245-251

  Zhao, Aihua ^a   Zhang, Zhongjie ^b   Teng, Jiwen ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Ray tracing; Seismic exploration; Travel time computation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 24144438810     PISSN: 17422132     EISSN: 17422140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-2132/1/4/001     Document Type: Article

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