Design of a 3D chirp sub-bottom imaging system

Marine Geophysical Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2-4, 2005, Pages 157-169

  Bull, Jonathan M ^a   Gutowski, Martin ^a   Dix, Justin K ^a   Henstock, Timothy J ^a   Hogarth, Peter ^b   Leighton, Timothy G ^c   White, Paul R ^c  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b GeoAcoustics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D chirp; 3D seismic; Chirp; High resolution seismics; Seismic sources

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ALGORITHMS; HYDROPHONES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CHIRP SUB-BOTTOM PROFILERS; COMMON DEPTH POINT; MARINE ACOUSTIC DEVICES;

SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

IMAGING METHOD; RESOLUTION; SEISMIC SURVEY;

LYCHNIS CHALCEDONICA;

EID: 31044436800     PISSN: 00253235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11001-005-3715-8     Document Type: Article

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