The effects of near-surface conditions on anisotropy parameter estimations from 4C seismic data

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-28

  Traub, Bärbel ^a   Li, Xiang Yang ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ANISOTROPY PARAMETER ESTIMATION; C-WAVE; P-WAVE;

SEISMIC WAVES;

P-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 33644854781     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2006.00512.x     Document Type: Article

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