Approximations of reflection travel times with high accuracy at all offsets

Journal of Geophysics and Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 28-45

  Causse, Emmanuel ^a  

^a SINTEF PETROLEUM RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Large offsets; Non hyperbolic; Singular value decomposition (SVD); Travel time approximation; Wide aperture

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 33645110626     PISSN: 17422132     EISSN: 17422140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-2132/1/1/004     Document Type: Article

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