High-resolution wave-equation AVA imaging: Algorithm and tests with a data set from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Geophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Wang, Juefu ^a   Kuehl, Henning ^b   Sacchi, Mauricio D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Geophysical prospecting; Image processing; Seismic waves; Wave equations

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVE EQUATIONS;

COMMON-IMAGE GATHERS (CIGS); MIGRATION DECONVOLUTION; SEISMIC IMAGING;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DATA PROCESSING; SEISMIC DATA;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN CANADA SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

EID: 33645682591     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2076748     Document Type: Article

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