Improving Kirchhoff migration with repeated local plane-wave imaging? A SAR-inspired signal-processing approach in prestack depth imaging

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 767-785

  Lecomte, Isabelle ^a   Hamran, Svein Erik ^b,c   Gelius, Leiv J ^c  

^a NORSAR   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DEPTH MIGRATION; PLANE-WAVES; SEISMIC IMAGING; SURVEY GEOMETRY;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

DATA PROCESSING; GREEN FUNCTION; KIRCHHOFF EQUATION; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

EID: 28144437082     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2005.00501.x     Document Type: Article

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